Vocabulary:
lcsh
Type:
Topic
Note:
Work cat.: Midjana, T. Die Periphrase, 2005.
Note:
Web. 3 (Periphrasis: the use of a longer phrasing (as in naming by a descriptive epithet, introduction of abstract general
terms) in place of a possible shorter and plainer form of expression)
Note:
Pocket Oxford dict. (Periphrasis - 1. roundabout way of speaking; circumlocution 2. roundabout phrase)
