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Wandered around European city holding a daughter (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

roamed

'wandered around' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'european city holding a daughter' is the wordplay.
'european city' becomes 'rome' (capital of Italy).
'holding' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'rome' placed around 'a' is 'roame'.
'roame'+'d'='ROAMED'

(Other definitions for roamed that I've seen before include "Wandered about aimlessly" , "Rambled around" , "Wandered about without any destination" , "Travelled aimlessly" , "Walked aimlessly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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