ambages

Meaning

Noun

Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.
Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.

Origin

From Middle English ambages, from Old French ambages (modern French ambages), from Latin ambāges, from ambi- + agere.

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