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
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
High settlement fees, expensive examinations, limitations of a trade to a certain number of masters and apprentices,—all this condemned thousands to pauperism, to a life of celibacy, and to vagabondage.
From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel
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