perambulation
Meanings
Plural: perambulations
Noun
- a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries
- a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- A survey, a tour; a walking around.
- An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
- The district thus inspected.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English perambulacioun, from Anglo-Norman and Latin. By surface analysis, perambulate + -ation or per- + ambulation.
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