† truandaln.
Obsolete. rare.
plural. Beggars; camp-followers.
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beggara1250
bidder1362
mendinantc1395
mendivaunt1395
craver1406
thigger1424
gangrela1450
mendicant1474
mendiant1483
eremite1495
Lazarus?a1513
truandals1523
bellyterc1540
clapperdudgeon1567
beggar-man1608
maunder1609
maunderer1611
Abraham cove1612
eleemosynary1643
mumpera1652
jockey1685
progger1685
asker1708
thigster1710
prog1828
shooler1830
cadger1851
panhandler1893
Weary Willie1896
schlepper1901
plinger1904
peg-legger1915
tapper1930
clochard1940
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. i. xvii. 7 b/2 They are all a horsbacke, without it be the truandals [Fr. la truandail] and laggers of ye oost, who folow after a foote.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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