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

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