˜yÐÄvlog

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landloper

[ land-loh-per ]

noun

  1. a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.


landloper

/ ˈ±ôæ²Ô»åËŒ±ôəʊ±èÉ™ /

noun

  1. a vagabond or vagrant
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of landloper1

1540–50; < Dutch: literally, land-runner. See land, lope, -er 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of landloper1

C16: from Dutch, from land + loopen to run, leap
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Example Sentences

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The child’s name is Lyra Belacqua, and she’s being sought by the landloper police.

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She’s a landloper child, and she’s in our care, and there she’s going to stay.

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“What we do know is that they do it with the help of the landloper police and the clergy. Every power on land is helping ’em.

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“Beg pardon, Lord Faa. There’s landloper kids as well as gyptians been taken captive. Are you saying we should rescue them as well?â€

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Then the gusts increased, and by fits blowed all at once from several quarters, yet we neither settled nor braided up close our sails, but only let fly the sheets, not to go against the master of the ship's direction; and thus having let go amain, lest we should spend our topsails, or the ship's quick-side should lie in the water and she be overset, we lay by and run adrift; that is, in a landloper's phrase, we temporized it.

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