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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

They were entered from either side through the open ambulatories which as we have seen were free to all.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

The earlier ambulatories were open, but in the fourteenth century they had windows looking on to the cloister-court, filled with stained glass.

From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

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