vadrouille

mop (implement for washing floors); walk, wander, stroll

“Dans le Combi Volkswagen, on décidait nos projets, nos escapades, nos grandes vadrouilles.” — In the Combi Volkswagen, we decided our projects, our escapes, our great walks.

17th century, at first in nautical parlance. Possibly an extension of regional drouilles (“old rags”), itself of unknown origin. The sense “walk, stroll” is a backformation from the denominal verb vadrouiller.