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perambulation

Pronunciation: /pəˌɹæm.bjʊˈleɪ.ʃən/

The English word “perambulation” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.
  2. An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
  3. The district thus inspected.

Etymology

From Middle English perambulacioun, from Anglo-Norman and Latin. By surface analysis, perambulate + -ation, or, by surface analysis, per- + ambulate + -ion.

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