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itinerant
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Definition:traveling from place to place to workPrinceton University. WordNet.. 2010.
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As for that perpetual brown velveteen jacket of Gowing’s—why, he resembles an itinerant photographer.”
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the air seemed to be filled with the dissolution of Parliament and the coming election, as the old wakes and fairs were filled with the rival clatter of itinerant shows;
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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with the help of fingerprints, identified the bird man as Bernard K. Winslow, an itinerant chicken sexer, who had disappeared from the alcoholic ward of a London hospital.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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