
Noah Webster
Circumforaneous
CIRCUMFORANEOUS, adjective
Going about; walking or wandering from house to house; as a circumforaneous fidler or piper; circumforaneous wits.
Circumforaneous musicians, male and female, are daily seen at the doors of hotels, in France; and sometimes they enter the room, where a company is dining, and entertain them with music; expecting a franc or a few sous as a reward.