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

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

Oddly, they all speak the same puckish periphrasis.

From Time Magazine Archive

As that poem explains, his name could not be used in elegiac verse: hence the periphrasis in this passage.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg

But in Puritan America there is an additional problem, which I can hardly explain without a periphrasis.

From What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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

But these names have fared like other periphrases.

From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Rasmus Björn Anderson

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

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

From The House of the Combrays by G. Le Notre

Robertson was, perhaps, the first man to adapt the polished periphrases of the pulpit to historical generalization.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various