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The Sex Lives of Cannibals vocabulary
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peripatetic
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synonyms: perambulator, perlustrater, peregrinator, shaughraun ???
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Definition:adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution—they knew no more of the matter than he.Ambose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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[...] Pax Britannica descended on the islands. That this occurred I think is less a tribute to the peripatetic colonial officers, who were ordered to administer both the Gilbert and Ellice Islands without the Colonial Office actually providing them with a boat, but more to the desire of the I-Kiribati* to reclaim their world from the rancorous influence of the I-Matang** reprobates who had settled on the islands.
J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.124 (2004)
*what the Kiribati people call themselves
** what the Kiribati call honkies
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Being myself at that time of necessity a peripatetic, or a walker of the streets, I naturally fell in more frequently with those female peripatetics who are technically called street-walkers. Many of these women had occasionally taken my part against watchmen who wished to drive me off the steps of houses where I was sitting.
Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
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