perambulator

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Gee, there's a squaw Coming toward the three children seated in the sand by the perambulator was a thin bent old woman, leaning on a stick Dirty old beggar," said Kent, beginning to devour his sandwiches Isn't she awful!"

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  1. noun Chiefly British A baby carriage.

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  • The cerise tunnel of the sunset and the tangled wreckage of the lunar perambulator are absolute proofs. —  Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 111] - Issue 04-05 - October-November 2006
  • Processions of bombed-out families—with a perambulator, a few bundles and the children clinging on for dear life—threaded their way through the glass and debris. —  The Narrow Margin
  • She had taken the baby from the perambulator, and it was a motionless bundle of wraps in her arms. —  The First Men In The Moon
  • His time was now principally devoted to inventions; he received a silver medal in 1768 from the Society of Arts for a perambulator, as he calls it, an instrument for measuring land. —  Richard Lovell Edgeworth
  • But the sense of the mischief which must have ensued if I had not succeeded in getting into the machine at the proper place, and stopping it at the right moment, was so strong, as to deter me from trying any more experiments on this carriage in such a dangerous place I have already given the changed use of the word perambulator. —  Richard Lovell Edgeworth
 

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/pərˈæmbjuleɪtər/
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