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The drivers also fled as fast as they could till they had drawn the Captain a little way beyond the place of ambuscado, which when they perceived, rising quickly out of their covert, they set fiercely upon him and his company, and so slew himself and chased his men back to the Castle, some of whom were overtaken and slain, others got into the Castle and so were saved.

—Waverley Novels — Volume 12

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An ambuscade. They were adroit in executing a thousand stratagems, ambuscadoes, and evolutions. Irving, Granada, p. 446.
To post in ambush. Sir T. Herbert.

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The drivers also fled as fast as they could till they had drawn the Captain a little way beyond the place of ambuscado, which when they perceived, rising quickly out of their covert, they set fiercely upon him and his company, and so slew himself and chased his men back to the Castle, some of whom were overtaken and slain, others got into the Castle and so were saved. — Waverley Novels — Volume 12
Death himself had me by the heels, for this was his last ambuscado, and he must now join personally in the fray. — An Inland Voyage
With a still, stern ambuscado, — Poems: New and Old
-- All this day ventured not abroad fearing an ambuscado. — Black Bartlemy's Treasure
"Oh, I am a pattern of strategy; this is but a simple ambuscado, a tame trap. — The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel