Perambulate

By Deane Barker • • tags: definition •
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Definition: to travel through; to make an official inspection on foot

“Ambulate” means walk. “Per” is a prefix meaning “through.” So to perambulate something is to walk through it. And I suppose people often walk through something to inspect it.

Why I Looked It Up

From Kingmakers:

He courted ridicule with this celebrated habit of perambulating with his wife, Catherine, on the Haymarket, trolling for prostitutes whose salvation they sought.

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Added on

In Once Upon a Tome I found this:

…guests were often left to circumperambulate in a nervous manner…

I looked it up.

to walk or go about or around, esp. ceremoniously

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