Citations:montivagant

English citations of montivagant

Adjective: "(rare) wandering in or moving through mountains"

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• 1839 — J. F. Pennie, Rogvald: An Epic Poem, in Twelve Books, G. and W. B. Whittaker (1823), page 275:

  As headlong rolls the torrent of the hills

  When wintry storms montivagant outpour

  Their pluvious treasures from the deep purloined.

• 2008, Katia Grubisic, ""montivagant" Before Its Time", in What if red ran out:

  See, it longed to be montivagant, / to conquer every peak known to fish, / […]

• 2013 October 1, Mark Forsyth, The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language, Penguin, →ISBN, page 244:

  Aircraft are all nubivagant, gorillas are all nemorivagant, and a holiday in Snowdonia could be described as a montivagant weekend. In fact, one could be simultaneously montivagant, nubivagant, nemorivagant and extravagant simply by taking an expensive holiday in the Lake District.