ambuscado

[ am-buh-skey-doh ]

noun

, Obsolete.

, plural am·bus·ca·dos.

1. ambuscade.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ambuscado¹

1585–95; pseudo-Spanish alteration of ambuscade

Example Sentences

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

We are now in a strange land, possessed by barbarians, who are good at spear and bow, and fonder of fighting from an ambuscado than on an open field; and with no true companions that I can see, to look that they be not lurking among yonder woodlands, some of which, I take it for granted, we have to pass.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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