ambage

ambage (countable and uncountable, plural ambages)

1. (especially in plural) ambiguity; circumlocution
   • Puttenham, Art of Poesie

     without any long studie or tedious ambage

   • 1607, Decker, Whore of Babylon:

     Umh! y' are full of ambage.

Learned borrowing from Latin ambāgēs.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.baʒ/

• France (Lyon)

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ambage m (plural ambages)

1. (chiefly in the plural) ambage

   sans ambages ― straight from the shoulder, bluntly

• “ambage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin ambāgēs.

• IPA^(key): /amˈba.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -adʒe
• Hyphenation: am‧bà‧ge

ambage f (plural ambagi)

1. (usually in the plural) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• ambage in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

ambāge

1. ablative singular of ambāgēs