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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Perambulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... was that two of the volumes of his survey should contain a regular and systematic perambulation of London by different persons, so that the history of each parish should be complete in itself. This was a very original feature in the great scheme, and one in which he took the keenest interest. Enough has been ...

— The Kensington District - The Fascination of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton

... mention of "Gavelkind," one of the ancient customs of Kent, whereby the lands do not descend to the eldest son alone, but to the whole number of male children equally. Lambarde, the eminent lawyer and antiquary (born 1536), author of A Perambulation of Kent,[5] says:—"I gather by Cornelius Tacitus, and others, that the ancient Germans, (whose Offspring we be) suffered their lands to descend, not to their eldest Sonne alone, but to the whole number of their male Children: and I finde ...

— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... was drifting now towards the Palace. Michael and Dorothea, Nicholas and Veronica, went with it. In this eternal perambulation they met people that they knew; Stephen and Vera; Mitchell, Monier-Owen; Uncle Morrie and his sisters. Anthony, looking rather solemn, drove past them in his car. It was like impossible, grotesque encounters ...

— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair

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