CIRCUMFORANEAN, 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.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI