Definition of "perambulation" [per•am•bu•la•tion]

• A survey, a tour; a walking around. (noun)
• An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries. (noun)

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• "But we shall not omit an account of these places in our perambulation, which is guided by sense-limits rather than by arbitrary lines."
• "It is romantic, potent and playful at once, and perfectly captures the balance between monumentality and motion, between eternity and perambulation, which is the essence of museums."
• "The Bishop and Synod did actually order a "perambulation" to be made to see if anything could be annexed from the adjacent parishes, especially"