vagabondage

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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 • May 8, 2018

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 • Apr. 8, 2014

Respectability and vagabondage are fighting it out in Victorian society, as they did in Pinero himself, the stage-struck clerk turned dramatist.

From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2013

Stevenson's travels through Provence, U. S. mountains, the South Seas to his Samoan grave suggest not only a search for healthful air but the consumptive's itch for vagabondage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, for example, is an idyll of vagabondage that might almost make one willing to play tramp one’s self, if one by so doing might have such an experience:

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver