Usually means: Indirect or roundabout ways speaking.
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  1. ambages: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ambages: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ambages: Vocabulary.com
  4. ambages: Wordnik
  5. ambages: Wiktionary
  6. ambages: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Ambages, ambages: Dictionary.com
  8. Ambages: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. ambages: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. ambages: Rhymezone
  11. Ambages: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. ambages: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. ambages: Free Dictionary
  14. ambages: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. ambages: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Ambages: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. ambages: Legal dictionary

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  1. ambages: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ambages)

noun:  (archaic) Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.
noun:  (archaic) Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.

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