perambulation

[ UK /pˌɛɹɐmbjʊlˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
  2. a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries
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How To Use perambulation In A Sentence

  • Stick on the post, and do the regular perambulation and inspection. To eliminate the hidden trouble in time.
  • At night, no one is allowed to walk around the camp without a guide, in case they bump into one of the enormous hippos that stroll past the chalets during their nocturnal perambulations from river to bush.
  • Apart from his often very lengthy religious perambulations, Carter's daily diary entries tend to be short memos, often abbreviated and cryptic, as if briefly reminding himself what he had done, or what he had thought: using the diary as an aide-memoire rather than as a personal chronicle. 'The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Books, Bodies, Fortune, Fame'
  • Yet despite being saddle-sore (I refused to use a specially inflatable seat cover printed with Dennis the Menace's face) and walking like John Wayne, I actually started to enjoy my regular daily perambulations.
  • perambulation" of the park, some description of its present condition and appearance may help to form an opinion. The Naturalist on the Thames
  • On the following day the jury signed a verdict that the 1277 perambulation still set forth the true bounds.
  • The Bishop and Synod did actually order a "perambulation" to be made to see if anything could be annexed from the adjacent parishes, especially Chronicles of Strathearn
  • There were no cartographers, no global positioning system, apart from the tramp of human feet in solemn perambulations.
  • In his perambulations around the city he comes across as a sort of explorer and courier between one block of cultural information and the next.
  • In order to execute the lesser charter, it was requisite, by new perambulations, to set bounds to the royal forests, and to disafforest all land which former encroachments had comprehended within their limits. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III.
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