Clochard : nm and f. (a word coming from the bell ringing at Les Halles in Paris to mark the hours during which the poor could use the waste from the stalls).
Socially maladjusted person, who lives without work or home, in big cities.
– Quote from the American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “I got lost among the shabby and hungry tramps who always hang around. I didn't know where I was going. » in the novel Ask the Dust (ask the dust) (1939).