ambage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Evasive or ambiguous language; circumlocution. countable,in-plural,literary,often,rhetoric
    — Puttenham, Art of Poesie without any long studie or tedious ambage
  2. An indirect or obscure path. countable,in-plural,literary,often,rhetoric

词形变化

ambages plural

词源

Inherited from Middle English ambages, from French ambage as well as its etymon Latin ambāgēs (“a roundabout or circuitous path”).
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