embuscade
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French embuscade, itself a borrowing from Italian imboscata.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]- Not to be confused with embûche.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “embuscade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian imboscata.
Noun
[edit]embuscade f (plural embuscades)
Descendants
[edit]- French: embuscade
References
[edit]- 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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