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imbroglio|ɪmˈbrəʊljəʊ|
Also em-.
[a. It. imbroglio ‘an entangling, an enwrapping, a garboile’, etc. (Florio), f. broglio confusion: see broil n.1 and v.2]
1. A confused heap.
1750Gray Long Story 66 Into the drawers and china pry, Papers and books, a huge imbroglio. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. viii. (1872) 283 It will lie there an imbroglio of torn boughs. 1864Browning A Likeness 42, I keep my prints an imbroglio, Fifty in one portfolio.
2. A state of great confusion and entanglement; a complicated or difficult situation (esp. political or dramatic); a confused misunderstanding or disagreement, embroilment.
1818Lady Morgan Flor. Macarthy I. iv. 235 The object of this farcical embroglio was the fanciful and accomplished ideologist. 1833J. W. Croker in C. Papers 23 Apr. (1884), A financial imbroglio would be immediate anarchy and general ruin. 1836Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 57 No household imbroglios. 1864Reader 8 Oct. 458/2 The play is exceedingly clever in its intrigue and imbroglio. 1879Farrar St. Paul xlii. II. 351 Matters had fallen into a hopeless imbroglio. 1885Stevenson Dynamiter 60 The terms of the letter, and the explosion of the early morning, fitted together like parts in some obscure and mischievous imbroglio.
3. ‘A passage, in which the vocal or instrumental parts are made to sing, or play, against each other, in such a manner as to produce the effect of apparent but really well-ordered confusion’ (Grove Dict. Mus. 1880). |