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Meanings of perambulation in English
An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
Usage of perambulation in English
1
Perhaps you and I should take a perambulation about this neighbourhood together?
2
And so, on foot, I began to contemplate the fine art of perambulation.
3
He set himself to make the perambulation of the street.
4
Finally, in my aimless perambulation, I came to the mantelpiece.
5
Upon Damaris, however, perambulation of those paths palled too soon.
6
Never did I experience this so feelingly as in the perambulation I am now describing.
7
And the more he revived, the more energetically did he protest against this wearisome perambulation.
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Smith paused in his perambulation of the carpet and stared hard at the celebrated art dealer.
9
The perambulation or beatinc of bounds is probably a survival of the same type of rite.
10
Milestone leading the van, they commenced their perambulation.
11
The knowledge of the boundaries of the parish was kept alive by the traditional ceremony of perambulation.
12
I resumed our perambulation, hoping movement would bring Sir Owen to a more relevant topic of conversation.
13
You're too busy tweeting, updating your Facebook profile or checking your emails to concentrate on basic perambulation.
14
Suddenly he stopped in his perambulation, as a faint recollection of the lost key came to his mind.
15
Raffles paused, cigarette between fingers, in a leonine perambulation of his cage; and his smile was a sufficient affirmative.
16
Here and there in your perambulation you may detect an odour with which certain trenches have already familiarised you.
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Perambulation through the time