saunterer
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In America, she believes, she can be “light and cosmopolitan, a world-touring saunterer, untethered by land or home … taking flight.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2022
He says that the word saunterer was derived from those persons who, during the Middle Ages, went on crusades to the Holy Land.
From Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Annie H Ryder
The detective, who seemed to have been just a saunterer, had accommodated himself to Francis' destination.
From The Evil Shepherd by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Here the Sunday saunterer stops and lounges with his book, and bathes his hands and face in the cool fountain.
From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by John Burroughs
His nature lore was an aside; he gathered it as the meditative saunterer gathers a leaf, or a flower, or a shell on the beach, while he ponders on higher things.
From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs
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