vanner
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vanner
Example Sentences
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Even to the untrained eye, it must be clear that the true vanner, the compleat vanner, the certifiable vanaddict, is up to much more than has yet been figured out.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vanner moves about � without quite traveling, if that indeed means changing places.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It's a place to forget your troubles, your religion, your color, your hang-ups, your job�even your kids�if you want to," exulted one vanner, who calls herself Lady Van-Detta.
From Time Magazine Archive
One is that the true vanner, at heart, is not fundamentally interested in getting anywhere, only in going.
From Time Magazine Archive
The blanket table, too, gives place at the modern mine to the "vanner," of which there are several varieties.
From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.
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