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  • noun Plural form of landlouper.

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Examples

  • Fatten ravens in the East, and the filthy landloupers of the steppe might slouch back to wherever their forebears had spawned them.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • Permit no longer, to your shame and ours, a band of Spanish landloupers and other foreigners, together with three or four self-seeking enemies of their own land, to keep their feet upon our necks.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Permit no longer, to your shame and ours, a band of Spanish landloupers and other foreigners, together with three or four self-seeking enemies of their own land, to keep their feet upon our necks.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 23: 1576 John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Permit no longer, to your shame and ours, a band of Spanish landloupers and other foreigners, together with three or four self-seeking enemies of their own land, to keep their feet upon our necks.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Permit no longer, to your shame and ours, a band of Spanish landloupers and other foreigners, together with three or four self-seeking enemies of their own land, to keep their feet upon our necks.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • “But to see the malice of men! — some of thae landloupers and gill-flirts down at the filthy puddle yonder, that they ca’ the Waal, had heard of this puir lad, and the bits of pictures that he made fashion of drawing, and they maun cuitle him awa doun to the bottle, where mony a bonny story they had clecked, Mr. Bindloose, baith of

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • _landloupers_ [Footnote: Strollers.] into his house, on the subject of whose morals the most serious doubts might be entertained; others envying the "bonny hand" the doctor was like to make of it, by having disposal of the wealthy stranger's travelling funds; a circumstance which could not be well concealed from the public, when the honest man's expenditure for trifling articles of luxury came far to exceed its ordinary bounds.

    The Surgeon's Daughter Walter Scott 1801

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