Ambages

==English==
===Etymology===
From (French ), from , from + .
===Pronunciation===
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===Noun===
# Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.
#*1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 169:
#*: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 [...].
# Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.
#* 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:
#*:Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered.
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