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   perambulate

   /pəˈrambjʊleɪt/

   verb

   • 1. walk or travel through or round a place or area, especially for pleasure and in a leisurely way: "the locals perambulate up and down the thoroughfare"
   • ▪ walk round (a parish, forest, etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries: "commissioners were appointed to perambulate the Devon forests before Whitsun 1319"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin perambulat- ‘walked about’, from the verb perambulare, from per- ‘all over’ + ambulare ‘to walk’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. perambulation noun
   • 2. perambulatory adjective

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