Associations to the word «Perambulation»

Wiktionary

PERAMBULATION, noun. (rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.
PERAMBULATION, noun. (legal) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.

Dictionary definition

PERAMBULATION, noun. A walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries.
PERAMBULATION, noun. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope