escalade
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
- escalader noun
Etymology
Origin of escalade
1590–1600; < Middle French < Old Provençal *escalada, equivalent to escal ( ar ) to scale 3 + -ada -ade 1
Example Sentences
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Soissons, with its walls about 26 feet high, had complete immunity from escalade, and the damming of the Crise brook made it unassailable on the south.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count
The escalade was managed by means of a ruined tree which projected from the wall.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund
He was the same composed and self-possessed being in a besieged garrison, in the moment of a threatened escalade, as amongst his cronies by a winter fire-side.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton
For it is according to eternal fitness, that the precipitated Titan should still seek to regain his paternal birthright even by fierce escalade.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
The first necessity for the wall was height, to give security against escalade.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
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