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wander-year
[f. wander v., after G. Wanderjahr, the year, or one of the years, spent in travel for the purpose of perfecting one's skill and knowledge between the completion of apprenticeship and settling down to the practice of a trade.]
A year of wandering or travel (usually with more or less direct reference to German usage).
1880T. W. Allies Life's Decision i. 6 At Oxford and in my wander-years it was the one subject for which..I not only had no taste, but the most marked repugnance. 1895Outing XXVI. 331/1 Traveling afoot like any poor student or mere Bursch of an artisan serving his wander⁓year. 1906Daily Chron. 26 Oct. 3/3 Off to Philadelphia went Leland, when his wander-years were over, and the necessity of choosing a profession and making a living faced him. 1912L. Tracy Mirabel's Isl. vii. (1915) 109 David had seen a good deal during his wander years, and he had never before secured such an auditor. 1914H. M. Vaughan (title), An Australasian Wander-Year. |