vagabondage

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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

It was the Fates that had ordained their first cycle of vagabondage.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright