noun, feminine/ɑ̃.byʃ/plural: embûches
ambush (concealment in order to attack or harm someone by surprise); trap
“un parcours semé d’embûches” — a course riddled with traps
Inherited from Middle French enbusque, from Old French embuschier (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imboscō, from in + boscus (“wood, woods”).