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Perambulation   Listen
Perambulation

noun
1.
A walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries.
2.
A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).  Synonyms: amble, promenade, saunter, stroll.





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"Perambulation" Quotes from Famous Books



... those who are so inveterately depraved the freedom to wander abroad, infect their fellows, prey upon Society, and to multiply their kind. Whatever else Society may do, and suffer to be done, this thing it ought not to allow, any more than it should allow the free perambulation of a mad dog. But before we come to this I would have every possible means tried to effect their reclamation. Let Justice punish them, and Mercy put her arms around them; let them be appealed to by penalty and by reason, ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth


Words linked to "Perambulation" :   United Kingdom, amble, UK, ramble, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Britain, meander, perambulate, Great Britain, walk, promenade, U.K., walkabout


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