ambulatories
- plural of ambulatory.
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
This, as was often the case with the earliest ambulatories, was of wood covered with a sloping roof or “penthouse.”
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 Ainsworth, William Harrison
Finally, for the convenience of processions, the nave and chancel aisles were carried round behind the high altar as ambulatories.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
