ambuscado

American  

[am-buh-skey-doh] / ˌæm bəˈskeɪ doʊ /

noun

Obsolete.

• ambuscados
  plural

1. ambuscade.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• ambuscados
  plural

Etymology

Origin of ambuscado

1585–95; pseudo-Spanish alteration of ambuscade

Example Sentences

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ambuscado ambuscados

Oh, I am a pattern of strategy; this is but a simple ambuscado, a tame trap.

From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

I also saw an infinite number of fish of all kinds, dancing, flying, vaulting, fighting, eating, breathing, billing, shoving, milting, spawning, hunting, fishing, skirmishing, lying in ambuscado, making truces, cheapening, bargaining, swearing, and sporting.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux

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.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

So, as I said, he came up with his train to the gate, and laid his ambuscado for Captain Resistance within bow-shot of the town.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Had these two had wind of the ambuscado and crept out by another door?

From A Christmas Garland by Sir Max Beerbohm

The dessicated remains of the few ambuscados that took refuge in the grub-box kept turning up in a variety of frys, stews, and fricassees for the next fortnight.

From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman