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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ambuscade /ˌambəˈskeɪd/

▶noun dated an ambush. ▶verb archaic ambush (someone).

– origin C16: from Fr. embuscade, based on a late L. word meaning ‘to place in a wood’; rel. to bush1.

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