ambulatory
adjective
of, relating to, or capable of walking.
ambulatories
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pluralof ambulatory.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They created ambulatories, zones of walking, like the one McLaughlin has made between the ring of columns and the outer wall.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2013
The star-flooded nights, the dew-soaked dawns, the hushed ambulatories, the enforced asceticism—never has Werner felt part of something so single-minded.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Elsewhere in Belgium are several flat-roofed churches of basilican plan, some with ambulatories in the French style but no apsidal chapels.
From Architecture by Nancy R E Meugens Bell
The ambulatories now serve as a museum of sculpture.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
And the ghostly procession thrice tracks the four ambulatories of the cloisters, solemnly chanting a requiem for the dead.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
