Definition of PERAMBULATION

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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