ambuscado
Americannoun
plural
ambuscadosEtymology
Origin of ambuscado
1585–95; pseudo-Spanish alteration of ambuscade
Example Sentences
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Beyond the sands, between the rocks, where the old cork trees grow, The path is rough, and mounted men must singly march and slow; There o'er the path the heathen range their ambuscado's line, High up they wait for Aguilar, as the day begins to shine.
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If they mean any treachery, such as a decoy and ambuscado, why, by my conscience! we must e'en allow them their humour, and punish them, when 'tis made manifest.
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What devil prompted us to disobey his command I know not, but scarce was he out of sight, when we landed; and mark the end on't: up from their ambuscado started full three hundred black fiends, with a yell that might have appalled Lucifer, and whiz came a cloud of arrows about our ears.
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Oh, I am a pattern of strategy; this is but a simple ambuscado, a tame trap.
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Death himself had me by the heels, for this was his last ambuscado, and he must now join personally in the fray.
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