ambigus

Noun

ambigu (countable and uncountable, plural ambigus)

1. (countable, dated) An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time; a buffet.
   • When straiten'd in your time, and servants few, You'd richly then compose an ambigu; Where first and second course, and your desert, All in one single table have their part.1708, William King, Art of Cookery
2. (uncountable) A French card game, somewhat like poker, but of earlier origin and involving different scoring of hands, played with a 40 card deck (four suits of Ace through 10).
   • In France during the following century primero became ambigu, and a little later another variation, called brag, sprang up in the west of England, from which poker is more directly descended in its American form.1916, New International Encyclopedia - Volume 18, page 773