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noun

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

... kargos belgarasah eseum balgo bartigos triangulissimus! However, added he, it behoveth thee to consider and ponder well upon the perils and the multitudinous dangers in the way of that wight who thus advanceth in all the perambulation of adventures: and verily, most valiant sire and Baron, I hope thou wilt demean thyself with all that laudable gravity and precaution which, as is related in the three hundred and forty-seventh chapter of the Prophilactics, is of more consideration than ...

— The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen • Rudolph Erich Raspe

... him that morning seemed to him like a vast mortuary, an abode of death, where only corpses could be found, a charnel-house reeking with foul smells and putrefaction. He slackened his steps, and rested in that kitchen garden, as after a long perambulation amidst deafening noises and repulsive odours. The uproar and the sickening humidity of the fish market had departed from him; and he felt as though he were being born anew in the pure fresh air. Claude was right, he thought. The markets ...

— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola

... mother's own lips. To me? No, but worse; to him. He knows well he is not my father's heir. He has known it since the hour of my father's death. He knows that I know it. Yet he has kept the lands to this day." Another uneasy perambulation. "Do you think of that when you talk of revenge? Manliness? He has none. He is a pitiful, truculent, groveling coward, ready to buy profit at any price. He has robbed me of my inheritance. He stands in my place. He is a living lie. Revenge? It ...

— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine

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