ambages

noun[plural only]2

1. •
   (no longer used) Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.

   • Thus from her cell Cumaean Sibyl sings / Ambiguous ambages, the cloyster rings / With the shrill sound thereof, in most dark strains. — 1632
2. •
   (no longer used) Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.

   • Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered. — 1993