Today's Word "peripatetic"
Prtaining to traveling from place to place
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peripatetic \pair-uh-puh-TET-ik\ (adjective) - 1. Of or pertaining to walking about or traveling from place to place; itinerant. 2 : Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers.
(noun) - 1 : One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant. 2 : follower of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.
"Mary, the eldest, a fine girl with a haughty clear brow, was a peripatetic governess, who gave lessons to the tradesmen's daughters." -- David Herbert Lawrence, 'The Prussian Officer and Other Stories'
Peripatetic derives from the Greek peripatetikos, from peripatein, meaning "to walk about," from peri-, "around, about" + patein, "to walk."
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