ambage
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Danh từ
nounPlural noun:
ambages
- 1.
(countable, in plural, literary, often, rhetoric, uncountable)(rhetoric, literary, often in the plural) Evasive or ambiguous language; circumlocution.
Puttenham, Art of Poesie without any long studie or tedious ambage
- 2.
(countable, in plural, literary, often, rhetoric, uncountable)(rhetoric, literary, often in the plural) An indirect or obscure path.
Nguồn gốc từ
Middle English ambages, from French ambage as well as its etymon Latin ambāgēs (a roundabout or circuitous path).