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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French embuscade, itself a borrowing from Italian imboscata.
Pronunciation
Noun
embuscade f (plural embuscades)
- ambuscade; ambush
- tendre une embuscade à quelqu’un ― to 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)
- ambuscade; ambush
Descendants
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)