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Escadrille

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small squadron.
  2. 2
    an air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I) wordnet
  3. 3
    A unit of (usually) ten or more aircraft in World War I France. historical
  4. 4
    a small squadron wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French escadrille, from Middle French, from Spanish escuadrilla, from Latin exquadrare (“to square off”).

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