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escalade

[ es-kuh-leyd, -lahd, es-kuh-leyd, -lahd ]

noun

  1. a scaling or mounting by means of ladders, especially in an assault upon a fortified place.


verb (used with object)

, es·ca·lad·ed, es·ca·lad·ing.
  1. to mount, pass, or enter by means of ladders.

escalade

/ ˌɛskəˈleɪd /

noun

  1. an assault by the use of ladders, esp on a fortification
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to gain access to (a place) by the use of ladders
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌescaˈlader, noun
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Other Words From

  • esca·lader noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of escalade1

1590–1600; < Middle French < Old Provençal *escalada, equivalent to escal ( ar ) to scale 3 + -ada -ade 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of escalade1

C16: from French, from Italian scalata, from scalare to mount, scale ³
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Example Sentences

So far this year, sales of the hybrid versions of the Cadillac Escalade and Chevrolet Silverado have been 20 and 12, respectively.

Lisi then returned and joined Ford in his car, a Cadillac Escalade.

In that scene, would they really drive around in an Escalade?

Minutes after Tiger Woods crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a tree, his wife Elin told police that he had been drinking.

There are only photos of Nordegren in her yoga pants and aviators, day in and day out, pumping gas into the Woods family Escalade.

But though the leaders of the escalade had begun mounting the walls with great spirit, they foundDifficulties of the escalade.

Citizens and refugees refused to admit a royal garrison, and foiled the attempt to capture the place by escalade.

Immediately afterwards, the enemy endeavoured to take the fort by escalade, but were repulsed with great slaughter.

Twice afterwards, Raju made repeated attempts to carry the place by escalade, but was both times repulsed with much slaughter.

The remainder of his troops diverged a little to the right to escalade the breach in the Kashmir bastion.

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