periphrasis

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Prince Bumpo, the heir to the throne, is a mooncalf who mistakes fairy tales for real life, speaks in Elizabethan periphrasis and murmurs to himself: “If only I were a white prince!”

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2020

Oddly, they all speak the same puckish periphrasis.

From Time Magazine Archive

This periphrasis so fascinated Charles W. Morton, now the associate editor of the Atlantic, that he began collecting examples of "Elongated Yellow Fruit" writing.

From Time Magazine Archive

For it is no longer possible to conceal by any periphrasis the fact that the spirit the Opposition has to combat is no other than the spirit of lying.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

They had what were called "the courtly manners of the old school"; were diffuse in style, and abounded in periphrasis.

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine