embuscade

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French embuscade, itself a borrowing from Italian imboscata.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.bys.kad/
  • (file)

Noun

embuscade f (plural embuscades)

  1. ambuscade; ambush
    tendre une embuscade à quelqu’unto ambush someone
    se tenir en embuscade(please add an English translation of this usage example)

Usage notes

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian imboscata.

Noun

embuscade f (plural embuscades)

  1. ambuscade; ambush

Descendants

  • French: embuscade

References

  • embuscade on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (embuscade, supplement)
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