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roamer|ˈrəʊmə(r)|
Also 4–5 romare, -ere, romber, rowmer.
[f. roam v. + -er1.]
One who roams; a wanderer, rambler.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. iv. 120 Til..religious romares recordare in here cloistres, As seynt Benet hem bad, Bernarde and Fraunceys. Ibid. x. 306 Ac now is religioun a ryder, a rowmer [v.r. romere] bi stretes, [and] A leder of louedayes. 1598Florio, Romeo,..a roamer. 1611Cotgr., Rodeur, a vagabond, roamer, wanderer. [1727in Bailey, vol. II. 1755 in Johnson.] 1794Coleridge Sonnet xii, Pale Roamer through the night! 1846C. G. Prowett Prometheus Bound 15 Calamity's a roamer, still abroad With restless flitting. 1883Jessop in 19th Cent. Oct. 599 They are not afraid of work, though they are roamers. |