Usually means: Indirect or roundabout ways speaking.
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  1. ambage: Merriam-Webster
  2. ambage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. ambage: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ambage: Vocabulary.com
  5. ambage: Wordnik
  6. ambage: Wiktionary
  7. ambage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ambage: Dictionary.com
  9. ambage: Rhymezone
  10. ambage: FreeDictionary.org
  11. ambage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. ambage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. ambage: Merriam-Webster

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  1. ambage: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ambage)

noun:  (literary, often in the plural) Evasive or ambiguous language; circumlocution.
noun:  (literary, often in the plural) An indirect or obscure path.

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