circumbendibuses

A form of circumbendibus — indirect or roundabout

Scrabble 27

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of circumbendibus

    And do others like it if you will take circumbendibuses for sound's sake!

    1846 Thomas Carlyle, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 18 Dec 1846, collected in The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Volume II, p127
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    Such roads you never did see— there is no road to any place but several running in all manner of circumbendibuses amongst the trees, just so as to avoid this stump or that rut.

    1962, Weston Bate, A History of Brighton, Melbourne University Press, page 79
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