Vicambulist

Quick meaning: Vicambulist is a noun meaning (rare) Someone who walks or wanders streets.

Meaning

(rare) Someone who walks or wanders streets.

Example Sentences

"To see and to be seen," is the professed object of these unwearied vicambulists.

I am Professor Shinichiro Kanazawa, Department of Western Philosophy, Kyoto University. My card. I am here as a vicambulist, someone who pleasantly strolls around cities for recreation, though like you I prefer the vernacular 'to ramble.'

For example, he would stare at the windows of shops; then, when the sales staff would encourage him to enter, he would discount them with indignation that he was not a browser—he was a vicambulist and also an excavator—literary, that is, and he would wink.

Word Forms

• vicambulists

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