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
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
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The growing vagabondage of the boy distressed him the more by reason of his own responsible connection with the little daughter of his French friend.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
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