periphrasis

In Modern French the pronominal inversion (the substantive being prefixed) or a verbal periphrasis must be used—Saul est-il?

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

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

"Prop of sea-waves' fire," a periphrasis for a woman that bears gold on her arm.

"He that hoardeth ocean's fire," a periphrasis for man, Hauskuld of Whiteness.