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Definition of Ambsace
1. n. Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value.
Definition of Ambsace
1. Noun. (archaic) Two ones; the lowest throw at dice; a pair of aces. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) Bad luck, worthlessness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ambsace
1. bad luck [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambsace
Literary usage of Ambsace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell (1890)
"... to risk the prosperity of a verse upon a lucky throw of words, which may come
up the sices of hardy metaphor or the ambsace of conceit. ..."
2. The Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell (1890)
"... to risk the prosperity of a verse upon a lucky throw of words, which may come
up the sices of hardy metaphor or the ambsace of conceit. ..."
3. Life & Letters at Bath in the Xviijth Century by Alfred Barbeau (1904)
"3 The first scene is in a " Gaming Room, Lady ambsace rising from the Table in
a Fury, while several sharpers divide her money." The dialogue opens thus ..."
4. Essays from the North American Review by William Hickling Prescott, Caleb Cushing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Bancroft, John Lothrop Motley, Washington Irving, Charles Francis Adams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George William Curtis, Francis Parkman, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holm (1879)
"a lucky throw of words, which may come up the sices of hardy metaphor or the
ambsace of conceit. There is such a difference between far-reaching and ..."
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