clochard (KLOH-shahr) noun

   A beggar; vagrant.

[From French clocher, to limp, from Latin clopus, lame.]

   "The bridge is always crowded with vehicles, clochards, salespeople,
   college students, the aged and infants, and dogs."
   Kyoko Yoshida, Kyoto Panorama Project, The Massachusetts Review (Amherst),
   Winter 2000/2001.

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figuratively.

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http://wordsmith.org/words/clochard.ram