Meanings
- uncountableThe state or characteristic of being a vagabond.
It has enabled us to establish that the act is not one of casual lust or vagabondage.
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC1 more example
Though he knew it not, the subtle spirit of vagabondage had taken possession of his soul, and even of his hat, which seemed suddenly to have lost its original respectability, and acquired an air of dissoluteness.
1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 76 - uncountableVagabonds, considered as a collective.
Synonyms & antonyms
nountravelling about without any clear destination
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchvagabondage
- Frenchvagabondage
- Englishvagabondage
Borrowed from French vagabondage.
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