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English
Pronunciation
Noun
imbroglii
- (rare) plural of imbroglio
- 1878: Sydney Smith, Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, William Empson, George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, and Harold Cox, The Edinburgh Review: or Critical Journal, page 533 (A. and C. Black)
- Unlawful connexions, indeed, are a fruitful source of trouble, and produce some of the most interesting imbroglii in life.
- 2007: ICON Group International, Inc., Webster’s Culioli Corsican to English Crossword Puzzles: Level 5, Puzzle №71, page 75 (ICON Group International, Inc.)
- 16 imbarazzi, imbroglii, madia
2008, Charles Shere, Roman Letters, Ear Press, →ISBN, page 125:Gioacchino Rossini composed many brilliant imbroglii in such operas as The Barber of Seville, but he did not invent the form, he inherited it from the natural way of speaking Italian when you are in passionate disagreement with another native speaker of the language.