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vanily en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of van + family.

Meanings

1. (slang, uncommon) The community and friends of a nomadic van dweller on the road.
   • I’d seen similar caretaking the year before, when a nomad named Beth fell while stepping out of her van (aka The Beast), breaking her left arm. Two members of her “vanily” set up what they called “Camp Recovery,” helping her do many things that are impossible one-handed, […]. 2017, Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 220:

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