English

Noun

circumbendibuses

1. plural of circumbendibus
   • 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

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

   • 1962 Weston Bate, A History of Brighton, Melbourne University Press, p79

     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.