embarras de richesses
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of embarras de richesses
C18: literally: embarrassment of riches
Example Sentences
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I remarked coolly that I could not make up my mind what to do, as I had an embarras de richesses.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train
Truly it may be said he has an embarras de richesses!
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Horace Waller
In the meantime you are, after all, only suffering from an embarras de richesses; it's far better to have too many suitors than none at all.
From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by G. J. Whyte-Melville
Far from a poverty of materials, therefore, the historian has much more reason to complain of an embarras de richesses.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
It was an embarras de richesses rarely met with; and in the rich and precious braids the ivory fingers were clutched, dishevelling them, tearing at them, in the excess of pain.
From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai
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