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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ambages
 迂迴的作法;拐彎抹角

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Am·ba·ges n. pl.  A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
    After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is.   --Burton.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 ambages
      n : (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action