The Only Use of
vagrant
in
The Scarlet Letter
- It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or vagrant Indian, whom the white man's firewater had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(vagrant) someone who is poor and has no regular home or job