All 3 Uses of
itinerant
in
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- From his half-itinerant life, also, he was a kind of travelling gazette, carrying the whole budget of local gossip from house to house, so that his appearance was always greeted with satisfaction.†
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- Then, he thought, how soon he'd turn his back upon the old schoolhouse; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade!†
- The musician was an old gray-headed negro, who had been the itinerant orchestra of the neighborhood for more than half a century.†
Definition:
marked by traveling from place to place to work