Circumforaneous

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Going about, as from market-place to market-place; walking or wandering from house to house; vagrant; vagabond.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Wandering from place to place or market to market.
  • adjective. Indirect, roundabout, or unnecessarily complex.
  • Word Usage
    "Proverb: I mean those circumforaneous Wits whom every Nation calls by the Name of that Dish of Meat which it loves best."
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