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
They ran away to Geneva, spent eleven years of romantic vagabondage interrupted only by his concert tours.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She went so far in mental vagabondage as to choose a wife for him, a very practical young woman with a reassuring physique, quite unlike herself.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley
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