embûche

Inherited from Middle French enbusque, from Old French embuschier (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imboscō, from in + boscus (“wood, woods”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.byʃ/

embûche f (plural embûches)

1. (usually in the plural) ambush (concealment in order to attack or harm someone by surprise)
2. (figurative) trap

   un parcours semé d’embûches

   a course riddled with traps

• Not to be confused with embuscade.

• embuche (post-1990 spelling)

• embûchement
• embûcher

embûche

1. inflection of embûcher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “embûche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.