AMBUBAJE, in Roman Antiquity, were immodest women, who came from Syria to Rome, where they lived by prostitution, and by playing on the flute: the word is derived from the Syriac abab, which signifies a flute; although others make it to come from am and Bais, because these prostitutes often retired to Bais. According
Ambulant According to Cruquius, these women used likewise to sell paint for ornamenting the face, &c.
Ambuscade AMBULANT, or AMBAULATORY. They gave in France the name of Ambulant commissioners to those commissioners, or clerks of the king's farms, who had no settled office; but visited all the offices within a certain district, to see that nothing was done in them against the king's right and the interest of the farm.