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trampage en · NOUN

Etymology

From tramp + -age.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, uncountable) The wandering homeless lifestyle of a tramp.
    • The action he inaugurated culminated in the law for the suppression of trampage, that has accomplished such good in the Granite State, and that has been so generally copied in other states. 1882, Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock, The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine, page 382:
  2. (informal, uncountable) The act of tramping or trekking.
    • He could take his wife to Muchenje by horseless carriage rather than by remorseless trampage through the bush. 2014, David Fletcher, Marmite, Bites and Noisy Nights (in Zambia) (page 80)