[ad. med.L. ambulātōrium a place for walking; f. ambulā-re: see AMBULATE and -ORY.] A place for walking in; especially, a covered way; an arcade, a cloister.

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1623.  Cockeram, Ambulatorie, A place to walke in.

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1659.  P. Heylin, in Biblioth. Reg., 258. A stately portico … raised on Corinthian pillars to serve for an Ambulatory, or common gallery.

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1759.  Martin, Nat. Hist., I. 253. Ambulatories within the Change.

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1812.  W. Taylor, in Month. Rev., LXVII. 295. Sheltered Ambulatories for wet weather are too rare in London.

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1855.  Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), IX. XIV. viii. 281. Its succursal aisles and ambulatories and chapels.

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1870.  F. Wilson, Ch. of Lindisf., 52. Open seats on either side of a central ambulatory.

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