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
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
Respectability and vagabondage are fighting it out in Victorian society, as they did in Pinero himself, the stage-struck clerk turned dramatist.
From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2013
And there one day, sitting in a wicker chair in a Left Bank cafe, he suddenly realizes that he can escape his perennial sense of personal and artistic vagabondage.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She had tasted of the wine and fruit of life—Love, and wanderings in far lands, and vagabondage.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.