Vagabond (person)

Vagabond (person)
For other uses, see Vagabond.

A vagabond is a drifter and an itinerant wanderer who roams wherever they please, following the whim of the moment. Vagabonds may lack residence, a job, and even citizenship.

Historically, Nazis regarded vagabonds as "individuals who are not socially accepted," and forced them to wear a black triangle badge on their jackets, following a sentence on the grounds of vagabondage, "work shyness" and homelessness.[1]

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Etymology

The term vagabond is derived from Latin word vagabundus, from vagari 'wander.' In Middle English, the term originally denoted a criminal.[2]

The critic Arthur Compton-Rickett (1869–1937) used the term to denote a literary type, which he characterised as "with a vagrant strain in the blood, a natural inquisitiveness about the world beyond their doors."[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ The unsettled, "asocials" University of Minnesota
  2. ^ Definition of vagabond from Oxford Dictionaries Online
  3. ^ Arthur Compton-Rickett (1906). The Vagabond in Literature. E. P. Dutton. 

Further reading

  • Rolf Potts (2002). Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. Villard Books. ISBN 0-81-299218-0. 
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