Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of walking abroad or about.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A walking abroad; a promenading.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A walking abroad; a promenading.

Etymologies

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Latin deambulatio.

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Examples

  • _'Then to dinner, 'quoth Callicles,' then to our post-prandial deambulation in the Lyceum; but now 'tis time for our parasolar unction, ere we bask and bathe and take our nuncheon; go we our way.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

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