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Ambulatory   Listen
noun
Ambulatory  n.  (pl. ambulatories)  (Arch.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ambulatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... be useless to explain to this person that fossils like this were not found by the wagon-load; that perhaps in the entire world there was not one in which the branchiocardiac grooves were so clearly defined, in which the emostigite and the ambulatory legs ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart

... with two and often four side-aisles, and one or both of these was commonly carried entirely around the apsidal termination of the choir, forming a single or double ambulatory. This combination of choir, apse, and ambulatory was called, in French ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Architecture - Seventh Edition, revised • Alfred D. F. Hamlin

... staircase, they passed through an arched door, and entered the great northern ambulatory. Nizza gazed down for a moment into the nave, but all was buried in darkness, and no sound reached her to give her an idea that any one was below. Proceeding towards the west, Solomon Eagle arrived at a small recess in the wall opposite one of the broad-arched openings ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth



Words linked to "Ambulatory" :   walk, walkway, mobile, ambulatory plague



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