ambages
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Is ambages a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of ambages?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.Examples: "Thus from her cell Cumæan Sibyl sings / Ambiguous ambages, the cloyster rings / With the shrill sound thereof, in most dark strains."; "Having thus briefly anatomized the body and soul of man,[…]I may now freely proceed to treat of my intended subject, to most men's capacity; and after many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is[…]."archaicpluralplural-only
2. (archaic) Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.Examples: "Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered."archaicpluralplural-only
Definition source: Wiktionary