gondoliering

• Then you could pass a by-law forbidding gondoliering to be done in any style later than the fifteenth century. —  A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')
• The day these two spent gondoliering through the waterways, where romance hides in every nook, is imaginatively narrated in tone in Nevin's suite, "Un Giorno in Venezia," a book more handsomely published even than the others of his works, which have been among the earliest to throw off the disgraceful weeds of type and design formerly worn by native compositions. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
• The other three-quarters is because they like to be rowed there in gondolas by the gondoliers they've read about, and the gondoliers they've read about wore proper gondoliering clothes -- they didn't look like East River loafers. " —  A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')

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