Etymology
Origin of vagabondage
Example Sentences
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Photograph: Moviestore/REX Shutterstock But the allure of the life of vagabondage remains.
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
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
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
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Permit me, then, as a brother in exile and vagabondage, as a pariah, to fraternize with you.
From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
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