bushmentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

bushment (複数形 bushments)

1. (obsolete) An ambush.
   • a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum III”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034, page 220:

     And by the way Sir Meliagrance laid in an embushment the best archers that he might get in his country, to the number of thirty, to await upon Sir Launcelot, charging them that if they saw such a manner of knight come by the way upon a white horse, that in any wise they slay his horse, but in no manner of wise have not ado with him bodily, [...]

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