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ambsace - n., the lowest throw at dice; the smallest possible amount of something; something worthless or unlucky.
Stress the first syllable, b is silent, and the second a is long -- AM-zays. In use since the 13th century, from Anglo-French, from Old French, from Latin ambās, both + as, unit -- that is, ace.
---L.
Stress the first syllable, b is silent, and the second a is long -- AM-zays. In use since the 13th century, from Anglo-French, from Old French, from Latin ambās, both + as, unit -- that is, ace.
---L.
