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third-person singular simple present saunters, present participle sauntering, simple past and past participle sauntered
To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace. quotations examples
One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream.
1858-1880, David Masson, The Life Of John Milton: 1649-1654
Meanwhile the young ladies sauntered along—before or behind, as the case might be—in the company of the young business-man and that of another youth who had come out independently on the trolley.
1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope at His House Party”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, page 94
And, after all, they were once very close, doesn’t Lewis still have the keys to his apartment, you know the way you let someone keep the keys after you’ve broken up, only a little because you hope the person might just saunter in, drunk or high, late some evening, […]
1986 November 24, Susan Sontag, “The Way We Live Now”, in The New Yorker
plural saunters
A leisurely walk or stroll. quotations examples
Caroline […] begged that the drive might be given up for a saunter about the gardens […]
1814, Elizabeth Hervey, Amabel, volume 1, page 53
A leisurely pace. examples
(obsolete) A place for sauntering or strolling. quotations
That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town.
1725–1728, published 1741