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common riding en · NOUN

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1. An annual festival in some Scottish towns, in which people conduct a ceremonial procession around the boundaries of the town in order to delineate the area and check for encroachment by neighbouring landowners.
   • Because the order of each summer's common ridings is printed on the soul of native Borderers, it can be difficult to find the sequence written down anywhere. 2011, Alistair Moffat, “The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest Times”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
   • This flag, or at least a copy of it, is said to have been borne at the annual 'common riding' ever since. 1906, Alexander Porteous, The Town Council Seals of Scotland, page 145:
   • It was this folk-moot which instituted the common riding and invested it with all the religious ceremonial which primitive religion attached to every event in the life of its votaries. 1898 July, W. E. Wilson, chapter 1514, in The Border Magazine, volume 3, number 30, page 140:

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beat the bounds