clochardn.
In France, a beggar, vagrant.
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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
1940 E. Hemingway For whom Bell Tolls xxx. 340 That bunch of drunks, clochards, bums.
1941 A. Koestler Scum of Earth 134 For..beggars, tramps, and clochards, the barrack meant material safety and comfort.
1959 News Chron. 26 June 2/4 An attempt to rid Paris of its clochards—the tattered and often drink-sodden tramps who form part of the local colour—has failed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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