étape

American  

[ey-tap, ey-tap] / eɪˈtæp, eɪˈtap /

noun

Military.

• étapes
  plural

1. a place where troops camp after a day's march.

2. a day's march.

3. Archaic. supplies issued to troops during a march.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• étapes
  plural

Etymology

Origin of étape

< French; Middle French estaple < Middle Dutch stapel warehouse; see staple ²

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

étape étapes

It was snowing hard now––a perfect geography scene, lacking only the 13 wolves; but the étape was only half finished.

From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The first gun off the Florida Keys sent Selwyn's only brother from his law office in hot haste to San Antonio—the first étape on his first and last campaign with Wood's cavalry.

From The Younger Set by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I was humiliated, especially as I remembered that the boys had a five hours' march as their first étape, and a bivouac at the end of it.

From On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes by Mildred Aldrich

She had heard all about it, too; she knew every étape of the 48th of the Line—from the camp at Sathonay to Sidi-Bel-Abbès, and from Daya to Djebel-Mikaidon.

From Lorraine A romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

You see, it will probably come off at the third étape from here, when the party of prisoners is being taken to Siberia.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They go on foot, sleep in étapes or barracks, and the daily allowance for their subsistence amounts only to five kopecks—equal to a halfpenny in English money.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

Patapouf, by a series of étapes and délours, approached, and was secured.

From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland