perambulation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   formal or humorous: a walk, stroll, or tour made on foot

   Their afternoon perambulation took them through every lane in the old city.

2. 2
   noun

   historical: an official circuit of an area made to inspect, assert, or record its boundaries

   The parish's annual perambulation confirmed the position of each boundary stone.

From Middle English perambulacion and Medieval Latin perambulatio, from Latin perambulare, 'to walk through,' formed from per- ('through') + ambulare ('to walk'). The legal sense preserves the practice of establishing a boundary by walking its full circuit.

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