circumvolutions

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Noun

circumvolutions

  1. plural of circumvolution
    • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal, page 5:
      It is said, on the contrary, that during each and every one of his one-and twenty circumvolutions he emitted no less than one-and-twenty distinct and furious whiffs from his pipe, to which he held fast the whole time with all his might...