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

There is the usual twaddle about "moral force," forsooth, under which saving periphrasis, now-a-days, every rebel ranter in field, or tub, or conventicle, insinuates lawless violence without naming it.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various

The story does not lack of detail, though it is noteworthy that Petrarch, in his "Trionfo d'Amore," decently veils the victim in a periphrasis.

From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett

One of the most frequent periphrases for a wedding, is the expression “joyful event.”

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith

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

From The House of the Combrays by G. Le Notre

He gradually acquired a reputation as a poet by his epistles, in which things are not called by their ordinary names but are hinted at by elaborate periphrases.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

This young man had a scorn of periphrases.

From Demos by George Gissing

These sagas are not to be so forgotten or disproved as to take away from poetry old periphrases which great skalds have been pleased with.

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