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as in walker
a person who travels by foot for exercise or pleasure
counts himself among that select group of hikers who are perambulators of the entire Appalachian Trail
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as in buggy
chiefly British
a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in
nannies pushing perambulators around London's Hyde Park
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In a 1923 address to the British Royal Society of the Arts, one Samuel Sewell chided his fellow-researchers for having failed to research the history of a device as common and useful as the ubiquitous perambulator, or pram.
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Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
One perambulator holding big packages and a sleeping red-haired baby clutching the strings of two round, red balloons.
—Robert Richardson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
Scilla caught up to this unlikely perambulator in a few strides.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 7 June 2021
The buskers have been banished; the perambulators have perished.
—Rachel Schallom, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2020
Maple leaves like dinner plates have blown up against the high tread of the sidewalks, and bicycles and perambulators are too tall to climb onto or into.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2019
The carousel’s maker, the Charles W.F. Dare Company, of Brooklyn, N.Y., also manufactured children’s perambulators and toys, such as rocking horses.
—Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
But, happily, the American perambulators enjoying their walk beside the wall would need only peek through it to see drug dealers loading up a medieval siege weapon, allowing them to hastily run for cover.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 14 July 2017
Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
One perambulator holding big packages and a sleeping red-haired baby clutching the strings of two round, red balloons.
—Robert Richardson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
Scilla caught up to this unlikely perambulator in a few strides.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 7 June 2021
The buskers have been banished; the perambulators have perished.
—Rachel Schallom, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2020
Maple leaves like dinner plates have blown up against the high tread of the sidewalks, and bicycles and perambulators are too tall to climb onto or into.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2019
The carousel’s maker, the Charles W.F. Dare Company, of Brooklyn, N.Y., also manufactured children’s perambulators and toys, such as rocking horses.
—Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
But, happily, the American perambulators enjoying their walk beside the wall would need only peek through it to see drug dealers loading up a medieval siege weapon, allowing them to hastily run for cover.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 14 July 2017
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“Perambulator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perambulator. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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