Escalade Definition

ĕskə-lād, -läd
escaladed, escalading
noun
The act of scaling or climbing the walls of a fortified place by ladders.
Webster's New World
verb
To climb (a wall, etc.) or enter (a fortified place) by ladders.
Webster's New World

(military, dated) To scale the walls of a fortification.

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Other Word Forms of Escalade

Noun

Singular:
escalade
Plural:
escalades

Origin of Escalade

  • Borrowing from French, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scalae (“ladder”)

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Italian scalata ultimately from Latin scālae ladder skand- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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