perambulation.
A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.
Meaning & usage
A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.
An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
The district thus inspected.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English perambulacioun, from Anglo-Norman and Latin. By surface analysis, perambulate + -ation, or, by surface analysis, per- + ambulate + -ion.
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