flanerie

I should find it hard to give an orderly account of my next adventures or impressions at Assisi, which could n't well be anything more than mere romantic < i > flanerie .

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

This charmed seclusion was especially grateful to my friend, and his sense of it reached its climax, I remember, on one of the last of such occasions and while we sat in fascinated flanerie over against the sturdy back of Saint John's.

A Passionate Pilgrim Henry James 1879

The installation is, above all, a mass-cultural version of individual flanerie, as described by Benjamin, and therefore a place for the emergence of the aura, for 'profane illumination'.

Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and Digest 2009

The Presidential assistants were prepared to affront political obstacles, but their "grace and their airy flanerie" (2) had shielded them from the brutal side of American life.

Signs of the Times 2008

Signor Lanciani is a great man who combines being the top authority in his profession with a kindness and bonhomie which make even an ignoramus feel happy with him ” and with the frankest love for flanerie and “sport.”

Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

Some time later he wrote to the same friend: ” “Nous avons fait un charmant voyage sur la Saone, de Macon a Verdun avec retour a Chalon ” une flanerie a voile avec toutes les varietes de temps: vents forts et vents faibles, calmes plats (c'est le moins agreable), bourrasques, beau temps, pluie, clair-de-lune, obscurite presque complete, splendeurs du soleil.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896