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单词 deambulatory
释义 deˈambulatory, a. and n.
[ad. L. deambulātōri-us fit for walking in, etc., whence -ātōrium n., place to walk in.]
A. adj. Moving about from place to place; movable, shifting.
1607Cowell Interpr. s.v. Eschequer, In Scotland the Eschequer was stable, but the other session was deambulatorie.a1633S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. ii. iii. §3 (1670) 238 In it self unequal, wavering, deambulatory.a1659Bp. Morton Episc. Justified 142 The deambulatory actors used to have their quietus est.
B. n. A place to walk in for exercise; esp. a covered walk or cloister.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xi, Fresche alures..That called were deambulatoryes, Men to walke to geder twayne & twayne, To kepe them drye when it dyde rayne.1447Will Hen. VI in T. J. Carter King's Coll. Chapel 13 Of the which [cloistre square] the deambulatorie xiiij fete wide.1834Gentl. Mag. CIV. i. 55 An inscription in a Roman garden informed the walker, that when he had made five turns of the deambulatory he had completed a mile.
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