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saunterer

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saun·ter  (sôntr)
intr.v. saun·tered, saun·ter·ing, saun·ters
To walk at a leisurely pace; stroll.
n.
1. A leisurely pace.
2. A leisurely walk or stroll.
[Probably from Middle English santren, to muse.]
saunter·er n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.saunterersaunterer - someone who walks at a leisurely pace
ambler, stroller
pedestrian, footer, walker - a person who travels by foot
Translations
saunterer
n → Bummler(in) m(f) (inf)


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I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks--who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.
Walking by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
His satisfaction communicates itself to a third saunterer through the long vacation in Kenge and Carboy's office, to wit, Young Smallweed.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
Saunterers pricked up their attention to observe it; busy people, crossing it, slackened their pace and turned their heads; companions pausing and standing aside, whispered one another to look at this spectral woman who was coming by; and the sweep of the figure as it passed seemed to create a vortex, drawing the most idle and most curious after it.
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