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Roundabout   /rˈaʊndəbˌaʊt/   Listen
noun
Roundabout  n.  
1.
A large horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round; a carousel. (British)
2.
A dance performed in a circle.
3.
A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.
4.
A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude.
5.
A traffic circle. (Chiefly British)


adjective
Roundabout  adj.  
1.
Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. "We have taken a terrible roundabout road."
2.
Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. "Large, sound, roundabout sense."





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"Roundabout" Quotes from Famous Books



... marry, and, by gad, she does it without a word and is glad to get a man. English girls obey their parents. They know what to expect if they don't—the lash, by God and the dungeon under the keep. Your roundabout method is all right for tenants and peasants; but among people who possess estates and who control vast interests, girls are—girls are—Well, they are born and brought up to obey and to help forward the interests of their houses." The old man was growing very drunk, and ...
— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major
... Pavilion d'Armenonville swirled round the unfortunate painter so violently that he felt as if he were on a roundabout at a fair. He feared that the siren must hear the pounding of his heart. To think that he had dreaded paying two louis! Two louis? Why, it would have been a bagatelle! Speechlessly he laid a fortune on the ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
... the States have been hearing both sides, English and the Hollanders, over and over again, and that the States have passed a provisional resolution, which however does not suit us. Now it is not reasonable, as we are allies, that our merchants should be obliged to send their cloths roundabout, not being allowed either to sell them in the United Provinces or to pass them through your territories. I wish I could talk with them myself, for I am certain, if they would send some one here, we could make an agreement. It is not necessary that one should take everything ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... lesson yesterday afternoon. Miss Ross and I went over to Mr. Bishop's after dinner, as we arranged we should during the dance. We put our clubs in my auto when no one was looking, and went by a roundabout way to the big sheep pasture to the east of the farmhouse. Do ...
— John Henry Smith - A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life • Frederick Upham Adams
... entered. He was more neatly dressed than when Marcus saw him on the occasion of his first visit. His patched and threadbare coat was replaced by a neat roundabout jacket; his greasy, visorless cap, by a flat felt hat, of which the brim was symmetrically turned up; his tattered shoes by great cowhide boots. The boy was of that age when the human frame grows with vegetable-like rapidity; and he seemed ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton


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