Etymology
Origin of vagabondage
Example Sentences
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In 17th- and 18th-century England, this panic resulted in harsh laws against vagabondage, and the development of charities to ameliorate the worst effects of enforced destitution.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2018
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
They ran away to Geneva, spent eleven years of romantic vagabondage interrupted only by his concert tours.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mere statement sheds a stronger light on the sources of child vagabondage in our city than I could do, were I to fill the rest of my book with an enumeration of them.
From The Children of the Poor by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
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