perambulatory
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It’s a sprawling document—you have to get through 173 nonbinding perambulatory paragraphs before you even get to the regulation itself.
From Slate ● May 8, 2017
“I always wish I were one of those perambulatory writers like Wallace Stevens.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2017
Don Carlos had so done; he was in Spain, it was true, but where he was at the moment the Cura was unable to say; his court was perambulatory.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
The meditation proved to be of the perambulatory sort, for she peeped into one room and then into the other, noiselessly appearing and retiring.
From Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker
She put her elbow on a couple of pickled gherkins that remained casually on the table after a perambulatory meal.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
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