Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—N

Nomads

Wanderers who live in tents, pastoral tribes without fixed residence. (Greek, nomades: from nomos, a pasture.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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