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entanglement (n.)
1640s, from
entangle
+
-ment
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Foreign entanglements
does not appear as such in Washington's Farewell Address, though he nonetheless warns against them. The phrase is found in William Coxe's 1798 memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole.