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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


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Varda’s film, though, turns any such eulogy to vagabondage on its head.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2015

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 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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