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  1. intransitive verb To walk at a leisurely pace; stroll.
  2. noun A leisurely pace.
  3. noun A leisurely walk or stroll.

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  1. Probably from Middle English santren, to muse.

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  1. Also dial. santer; from Middle English saunteren, santren (see defs.): (a) prob. from Old French s′aventurer, se adventurer, reflex., adventure oneself, risk oneself: se, oneself, coalescing with aventurer, risk, adventure (later Middle English auntren, risk): see adventure and obsolete aunter, v. This etymology, suggested by Skeat and Murray, involves a difficulty in the otherwise unexampled transit into English of the Old French reflexive se as a coalesced initial element, but it is the only one that has any plausibility. Various other etymologies, all absurd, have been suggested or are current, namely: (b) from French sainte terre, holy land, in supposed allusion to “idle people who roved about the country and asked charity under pretence of going à la sainte terre,” to the holy land. (c) from French sans terre, without land, “applied to wanderers without a home”; (d) from French sentier, a footpath (see sentinel, sentry); (e) from Dutch slenteren = Low German slenderen = Swedish slentra = Danish slentre, saunter, loiter, Swedish slunta = Danish slunte, idle, loiter; Icelandic slentr, idle lounging, slen, sloth, etc.; (f) from Icelandic seint = Norwegian seint = Swedish Danish sent, slowly, orig. neuter of Icelandic seinir = Norwegian sein = Swedish Danish sen = Anglo-Saxon sǣne, slow; (g) from Old Dutch swancken = German schwanken, etc., reel, waver, vacillate.
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