flaneur, m. flâneuse, f.

French n. 1 An idler, loafer or wanderer. 2 One who strolls the city to observe people and the spectacle of life.

“For the perfect [flâneuse], for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home… The lover of life makes the whole world [her] family.”

— Charles Baudelaire (The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, 1863)

The “artist of modern life” was originally a bourgeois male. Most female explorers I know and love, have supported their wanderings by waitressing.