vagabondage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French vagabondage.

Noun

vagabondage (uncountable)

1. The state or characteristic of being a vagabond.
   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 76:

     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.

   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:

     It has enabled us to establish that the act is not one of casual lust or vagabondage.

2. Vagabonds, considered as a collective.

Synonyms

• vagabondism

References

• “vagabondage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

From vagabonder +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.daʒ/

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Noun

vagabondage m (plural vagabondages)

1. vagabondage

Further reading

• “vagabondage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012