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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(rare) Involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous..
“Suppose I should get up a ballet, drill the girls myself, and learn ’em all the peritropal movements; see that their skirts are short enough, and that they are graceful while dancing.[…]”
Our three-decade friend, Joe A. Kirgan, late of the Milford Gazette, has established a paper at Frost, Navarro county. Joe is a regular peritropal and peripatetic genius, never lasting more than three months in one place.
My peritropal jaunts were propelled by the sad and dreary loneliness of my hotel room in a downtown that was a shrunken shadow of what it was when Billy Phelan “made a right turn into the warmth of the stairs to Louie’s pool room,[…]”
Use peritropal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Peritropal means (rare) Involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“Suppose I should get up a ballet, drill the girls myself, and learn ’em all the peritropal movements; see that their skirts are short enough, and that they are graceful while dancing.[…]”
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