loitering
noun C2- The act or practice of lingering or remaining in a place aimlessly or without an obvious purpose. · NO LOITERING [sign posted where hanging out and causing trouble is unwelcome]· a book about my loiterings in Europe
Plural loiterings
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There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.
Did you ask her whether in leaving she met any one or saw any one loitering about Charles Street?”
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