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

Periphras′tic, -al, containing or expressed by periphrasis or circumlocution.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Be it remarked that this periphrasis indicated his mother; and that the bread he alluded to is made with a species of leaven.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe

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

In literature such “barbarisms” were avoided as far as possible, and were replaced by Greek periphrases.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

He abounded in periphrases colored like sacred prints....

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

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

This confusion of Pagan and Christian mythology is increased by his habit of finding classical periphrases for the expression of religious ideas.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds