saunterer
- a word derived from saunter.
Example Sentences
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In America, she believes, she can be “light and cosmopolitan, a world-touring saunterer, untethered by land or home … taking flight.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2022
He says that the word saunterer was derived from those persons who, during the Middle Ages, went on crusades to the Holy Land.
From Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Ryder, Annie H
The detective, who seemed to have been just a saunterer, had accommodated himself to Francis' destination.
From The Evil Shepherd by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Willis was a kindly saunterer, the first Boston dandy, who began his literary career with grotesque propriety as a sentimentalizer of Bible stories, a performance which Lowell gayly called inspiration and water.
From Literary and Social Essays by Curtis, George William
No more than this would the casual saunterer along that unfrequented footpath through the plantations meet or see.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
