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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Example Sentences

You’ll thin your apple trees; stock up on jam jars for fragrant bottled apricots, storage racks for surplus quinces, and freezer bags for your embarras de sweet corn richesse, because there’s nothing worse than a glut.

From The New Yorker

Court documents say Small hid his wife’s body in an attic for about two days before taking it to Coles County, dismembering it and tossing it into the Embarras and Vermillion rivers.

From Washington Times

A hiker found his body less than a year later along the Embarras River near the town of Newton.

From Washington Times

In the course of the 17th century and particularly in its final decades, that word, embarras, which until then had meant “embarrassment” or “confusion,” acquired a new meaning: “The encounter in a street of several things that block each other’s way.”

From Slate

An image from about 1700 is the original depiction of a traffic jam: it has a double title, “The Pont Neuf” and “l’embarras de Paris.”

From Slate