When he had finished, there was a scramble for the many dishes left over. The University had paid £160 for this banquet or ambigue, noted the antiquarian Anthony Wood (1632-95). Ambigue, borrowed from French ambigu, meant a meal where all the dishes were served at once. Stressed on second syllable until about 1825, says the Oxford English Dictionary. Calash: a light carriage, as used by the Prince of Orange for his entry into St James’s on 18 December 1688.