Ambages
winding, roundabout paths or ways.
historical examples
charles ran through all the ambages of intrigue, like a subject who endeavours to make a minister suspected by his master.
the history of peter the great, emperor of russia voltaire
longa est injuria, long / ambages—long is the story of her wrongs, tedious the details.
dictionary of quotations from ancient and modern, english and foreign sources james wood
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