亚洲网紅露点

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landloper

[ land-loh-per ]

noun

  1. a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.


landloper

/ 藞濒忙苍诲藢濒蓹蕣辫蓹 /

noun

  1. a vagabond or vagrant
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of landloper1

1540鈥50; < Dutch: literally, land-runner. See land, lope, -er 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of landloper1

C16: from Dutch, from land + loopen to run, leap
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Example Sentences

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The child鈥檚 name is Lyra Belacqua, and she鈥檚 being sought by the landloper police.

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She鈥檚 a landloper child, and she鈥檚 in our care, and there she鈥檚 going to stay.

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鈥淲hat we do know is that they do it with the help of the landloper police and the clergy. Every power on land is helping 鈥檈m.

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鈥淏eg pardon, Lord Faa. There鈥檚 landloper kids as well as gyptians been taken captive. Are you saying we should rescue them as well?鈥

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Then the gusts increased, and by fits blowed all at once from several quarters, yet we neither settled nor braided up close our sails, but only let fly the sheets, not to go against the master of the ship's direction; and thus having let go amain, lest we should spend our topsails, or the ship's quick-side should lie in the water and she be overset, we lay by and run adrift; that is, in a landloper's phrase, we temporized it.

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