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

Mrs. Emma Hammerstein, 47, widow of the late impresario Oscar Hammerstein, a woman once presented at four European regal courts, was found guilty of vagabondage in a Manhattan police court.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mere statement sheds a stronger light on the sources of child vagabondage in our city than I could do, were I to fill the rest of my book with an enumeration of them.

From The Children of the Poor by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)