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Roundabout   /rˈaʊndəbˌaʊt/   Listen
noun
Roundabout  n.  
1.
A large horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round; a carousel. (British)
2.
A dance performed in a circle.
3.
A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.
4.
A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude.
5.
A traffic circle. (Chiefly British)


adjective
Roundabout  adj.  
1.
Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. "We have taken a terrible roundabout road."
2.
Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. "Large, sound, roundabout sense."





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"Roundabout" Quotes from Famous Books



... Joseph Zimmer had had a long and roundabout journey. A fortnight before he had worn the uniform of a British major-general. As such he had been the inmate of an expensive Paris hotel, till one morning, in grey tweed clothes and with a limp, he had taken the Paris-Mediterranean Express with a ticket ...
— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan
... under the strictest law of cause and effect. The first effect of losing one's fortune, for instance, is humiliation; and the effect of humiliation, as we have just seen, is to make one humble; and the effect of being humble is to produce Rest. It is a roundabout way, apparently, of producing Rest; but Nature generally works by circular processes; and it is not certain that there is any other way of becoming humble, or of finding Rest. IF a man could make himself humble to order, ...
— Addresses • Henry Drummond
... the mine by daylight. Every care had to be taken to satisfy the shareholders that no stranger was in sight, and the last boy was compelled to keep a vigilant look-out while the others were descending, and then to make his way to the opening by a roundabout route, exercising a vigilance that would have puzzled an army ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... Widower,' is 'a very clever sketch, but as a novel is rather drawn out.' 'The Roundabout Papers' make very pleasant reading. In one 'he compares himself to a pagan conqueror driving in his chariot up the Hill of Coru, with a slave behind him to remind him that he is only mortal.' In 1863, suddenly, Thackeray ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke
... it!" said The Chobb. "I hate roundabout stories. I am a gentleman. Was it a joke or not? Will you pay me a good ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various


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