ambuscade

== English == === Etymology === From French embuscade, from Italian imboscata from the past participle of imboscare (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imbosco (“I hide, ambush”) (see there for more), from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambush. More at bush. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈæmbəsˌkeɪd/ Rhymes: -eɪd === Noun === ambuscade (plural ambuscades) (dated) An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy. The place in which troops lie hidden for an ambush. The body of troops lying in ambush. ==== Derived terms ==== ambuscader ==== Translations ==== === Verb === ambuscade (third-person singular simple present ambuscades, present participle ambuscading, simple past and past participle ambuscaded) (dated) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay. 1923, Carl Sandburg, film review dated 18 May 1923, re-printed in The Movies Are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928 (ed. Arnie Bernstein), Lake Claremont Press (2000), →ISBN, page 169: But aside from its love story, the picture is filled with the fighting and shooting, fording rivers with wagon trains, Indians ambuscading wagon trains, scouts who drink whisky and fight and ride magnificently. ==== Translations ====