periphrasis

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

As a periphrasis, the combination in other words is subdisjunctive.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

This proves that the use of that periphrasis was general, and that it must have dated back to a much earlier period.

From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont

The dates of certain papers complete the discreet periphrases of Bonnœil.

From The House of the Combrays by G. Le Notre

He has remnants of the old periphrases, the cumbrous mythological allusions, the poetical “properties” of French verse.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

These double and recurring epithets of Homer are a softer form of the quaint Northern periphrases, which make the sea the 'swan's bath,' gold, the 'dragon's hoard,' men, the 'ring-givers,' and so on.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang

The age of Delille wished to see everything described in elegant periphrases, and the periphrases arranged in harmonious verses.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

Sun and moon and so on are spoken of by their natural unmistakable names, or in equally unmistakable poetical periphrases, as in riddles. 

From Modern Mythology by Andrew Lang