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Recent Examples of clochardIn summer the clochards like to live along the quay, sleep under the bridges.—Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
From oversized, slouchy hobos to structured East-West silhouettes and laptop-ready work totes, this season’s best suede bags deliver a luxurious polish that will elevate every fall wardrobe.
On May 3, she was seen toting around the brand's slouchy black hobo bag with gunmetal hardware before switching to one of their smaller shoulder bags for a concert later that night.
Young, unemployed family man Nick (MacKay) volunteers to take the boat back out, along with taciturn, new-in-town drifter Liam (Turner) and grizzled seadog Murgey (Francis Magee).
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
31 Aug. 2025
Entrants included everything from historic race cars to JDM drifters, time attack competition cars and off-roaders.
Strait is a veteran of the genre known for his vagabond anthems and sweet love songs.
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Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
Folk Rock Since the twenty-tens, the L.A. folk-rock band Lord Huron has offered a captivating take on Americana, filled with vagabonds and pariahs hoping to avoid haunted afterlives.
In Commonweal a Berrigan brother wrote from jail of the hopeful solidarity among his Black cellmates; Catholic Worker newspapers, their cheap ink faded by an afternoon of sunlight, described finding Christ among tramps on the breadline and exhorted readers to join Him.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
Daniels’ first foray into the horror genre shot to No. 1 on Netflix after dropping Aug. 30, which may have a little bit — or a whole lot — to do with Close, who clearly had the time of her life playing a tramp named Alberta.
His socialite wife, Margo (Malin Akerman), quickly takes Sophie under her wing, introducing the wide-eyed waif to her gaggle of girlfriends, including Jill (Katie Lowes), the wife of the megachurch’s reverend, and Callie (Jaime Ray Newman), the sheriff’s wife.
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Melissa Locker,
Time,
23 July 2025
Meanwhile, Bronte the bookstore waif is uncovering the human aquarium.
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