Definition of "deambulatory" []

• A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory. (noun)

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• "The plan consists of a nave, with aisles and lateral chapels, transept and choir, with a deambulatory at a slightly lower level."
• "This vast edifice rested on a foundation with a projection of ten cubits forming a deambulatory (18), which was reached by a stairway of twelve or fourteen steps."
• "It was the earliest important building in which the pointed arch (croisée d'ogive) was used in the chapels of the deambulatory, thus inaugurating this wonderful invention of the"