OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 29258

contretemps

/ˈkɒn.tɹə.tɑ̃ŋ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
contratiempo
An unforeseen, inopportune, or embarrassing event.
"I see that you are a born American citizen--and an earlier knowledge of that fact would have prevented this little contretemps. You are aware, Mr. Hoffman, that your name is Germa…
...and said "she had been the most efficient friend of the charity;" and whether a whisper that had gone forth respecting her contretemps with the strange man was spread, or it had…
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