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Embarras

or Em·barrass

[am-braw]

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noun

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

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Examples from the Web for embarras

Historical Examples of embarras

I can easily enter into the embarras of your present situation.
The Letters of Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Sometimes they had to force their way through an embarras, as the voyageurs call a pile of driftwood.
The Young Alaskans on the Trail
Emerson Hough
The symptoms are such as belong to acute indigestion and the embarras gastrique of French authors.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II
Various
A bibliography, if there be one, would be most likely an embarras de richesse.
Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913
Various
So thorough an illustration of an embarras des richesses is not often met with in history.
The Comic History of Rome
Gilbert Abbott Becket

Word Origin and History for embarras

n.

1660s, from French embarras "obstacle;" see embarrass.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper