circumambages
Example Sentences
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In the first stanza, in the contrast between peasant's lowly cot and noble's painted hall, the inflections are rising circumflexes and falling circumflexes.
From New National Fourth Reader by Barnes, Charles J.
"I wish..." said Victor, and made six circumflexes upon it as apostrophes of the same number of omitted curses.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
