Plural of 'ambuscado'; multiple ambushes, groups of soldiers in hiding, or surprise military attacks.
From 'ambuscado' (ambush) + '-s' (English plural suffix applied to Spanish loanword). This plural form appears in historical military accounts and period literature.
Military historians writing about 16th-century campaigns loved this word's dramatic plural—'ambuscados'—which made a document sound simultaneously Spanish, learned, and thrilling.
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