escalade
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See also: escaladé
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scalae (“ladder”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛskəˈleɪd/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɛskəˌleɪd/, /ˈɛskəˌlɑd/
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
[edit]escalade (plural escalades)
- An act of scaling walls or fortifications.
- Synonym: (obsolete) scalade
- An escalade was required for the warriors to attack the troops.
Verb
[edit]escalade (third-person singular simple present escalades, present participle escalading, simple past and past participle escaladed)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to scale the walls of a fortification
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]escalade f (plural escalades)
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]escalade
- inflection of escalader:
Further reading
[edit]- “escalade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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