ambages
Meanings
noun
- Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.
- Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.
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Etymology
From Middle English ambages, from Old French ambages (modern French ambages), from Latin ambāges, from ambi- + agere (“to drive”).
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