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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.






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"Ambulatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... that may be the more securely claimed since the original has been immolated. As a matter of fact, it too bears the stigma of the Centennial period, of which it is a characteristic example. The only windows of aesthetic interest in the church are the recent lights in the ambulatory, made by different firms in competition for the windows of the Lady Chapel, which is to be treated ...
— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice

... architectural student the plan of the cathedral is not the least interesting feature of the building, for although it has an ambulatory which is semicircular internally, the plan is in other respects rather exceptional. It is what architects call a periapsidal plan, meaning that its eastern termination contains a processional aisle or ambulatory, designed ...
— Winchester • Sidney Heath



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



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