vagabondage

[ vag-uh-bon-dij ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of vagabondage¹

First recorded in 1805–15; vagabond + -age

Example Sentences

Journe, the Vagabondage 1, features 18-carat white gold, a red watch face and images of a Ferrari logo, Schumacher’s racing helmet and a “7” — to honor his seven World Championship victories.

From Seattle Times

Maybe it was a good omen that the pandemic’s shuttering of the hall made it possible to scuttle what originally was a longer construction schedule that would have forced the orchestra to move in and out of an unfinished building for nearly two more years, extending a risky vagabondage.

From New York Times

Another concerns how the language of race and class was, as Masur puts it, “fungible”: Even after the Civil War, legislation cracking down on “vagrancy” and “vagabondage” allowed state legislatures in the former Confederacy to practice discrimination under cover of laws that seemed “race-neutral.”

From New York Times

Writer and transient Henri Tascheraud describes those like him as “for the most part throwbacks, pure and simple. We don’t fit, and that is why we love vagabondage, and disdain respectability.”

From Washington Post

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

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