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Embarras

American  
[am-braw] / ˈæm brɔ /
Or Embarrass

noun

  1. a river in E Illinois, flowing S and SE to the Wabash River. 185 miles (298 km) long.


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Wabash east, Fox river west, and Embarras and Raccoon through it.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

At four P.M. we left the main branch of the Athabasca, entering a small river, called the Embarras.

From Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 by Franklin, John

An example of this was Mr. Linley Sambourne's drawing, entitled "An Embarras de Richesses," graphically illustrating the glut of money in "the City" in the summer of 1894.

From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)

Kaskaskia, Embarras, and heads of the Little Wabash water it.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

Edgar.—Watered by Big, Clear, and Brulette's creeks on the eastern, and Little Embarras on its western side.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

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