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Perambulation n.

The act of perambulating; traversing.

An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.

A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection. "The... bounds of his own perambulation." (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Perambulation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Perambulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... a time, Love, Death, and Reputation, Three travellers, a tour together went; And, after many a long perambulation, Agreed ...

— Books for Children - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 3 • Charles and Mary Lamb

... drifting now towards the Palace. Michael and Dorothea, Nicholas and Veronica, went with it. In this eternal perambulation they met people that they knew; Stephen and Vera; Mitchell, Monier-Owen; Uncle Morrie and his sisters. Anthony, looking rather solemn, drove past them in his car. It was like impossible, grotesque encounters ...

— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair

... with his head on one side. At first he carefully avoids the objects that are in his way; but by degrees his mental faculties become impaired; his sense of vision is confused or lost, and he blunders against everything: in fact, if uninterrupted, he would continue his strange perambulation incessantly, until he was fairly worn out and ...

— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt

... I experience this so feelingly as in the perambulation I am now describing. On coming to Paris, I had confined myself to ideas which related to the situation I expected to occupy there. I had rushed into the career I was about to run, and should have completed it with tolerable eclat, but it was not that my heart ...

— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau

... Patrimony. Patriotism. [Greek: patris]. Patrius sermo. Patron. Peacock. "Pearl grass." Pearls. Pebbles. Pedagogy (Primitive). of play. Peevish. Pelican. Pennalism. Peunou. Pennyroyal. Peragenor. Perambulation. Percival. Personal names. Pet, pettish. Phallus. Pharaoh. Phatite. Philemon. Philology (see Linguistics). Philosophy. [Greek: phusi]. Phyllis. Physical efficiency. Physiognomy. "Physonyms." Pigs. Pine. Pinks. Pippadolify. "Pity my Case." "Place, my." Plant-food. —mother, —names. ...

— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain

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