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

His young friend was not in the humor for hesitation, and, distrusting his own perambulatory powers, gave himself up, without reserve, to Glover's guidance.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

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 O'Shea, John Augustus

An omnibus has always appeared to me, to be a perambulatory exhibition-room of the eccentricities of human nature.

From Basil by Collins, Wilkie