vagabondage
Example Sentences
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In 17th- and 18th-century England, this panic resulted in harsh laws against vagabondage, and the development of charities to ameliorate the worst effects of enforced destitution.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2018
Varda’s film, though, turns any such eulogy to vagabondage on its head.
From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2015
She is consigned to a madhouse, and her child to a life of pachyderm vagabondage in the company of a helpful mouse and some jive-talking crows.
From Time • Apr. 8, 2014
Stevenson's travels through Provence, U. S. mountains, the South Seas to his Samoan grave suggest not only a search for healthful air but the consumptive's itch for vagabondage.
From Time Magazine Archive
A man, endowed with an extraordinary capacity for forgetfulness, was tried some time ago, at Paris, for vagabondage.
