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vagabondage

American  
[vag-uh-bon-dij] / ˈvæg əˌbɒn dɪdʒ /

noun

  1. the state or condition of being a vagabond; idle wandering.

  2. vagabonds collectively.


Etymology

Origin of vagabondage

First recorded in 1805–15; vagabond + -age

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

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

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

Conscious only of his adoration, Joan was enchanted by their mode of life, with its constant shifts of scene, its spice of vagabondage.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

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