landlouper

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Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch landloper (literally land-runner). Merged with native English landleaper; equivalent to land +‎ leaper.

Noun

landlouper (plural landloupers)

  1. (archaic) A vagabond; a vagrant.
    Synonym: landleaper
    • 1856, John Lothrop Moltey, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, page 594:
      Bands of landloupers had been employed []

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