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

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

Marriage is as rare as diamonds nowadays, while sexual vagabondage is well tolerated and well spread.

From The Guardian

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

From The Guardian

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

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