Escalade
/ˌɛskəˈleɪd/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An act of scaling walls or fortifications.
"An escalade was required for the warriors to attack the troops."
- 2 an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification) wordnet
Verb
- 1 To scale the walls of a fortification. dated
- 2 climb up and over wordnet
Example
More examples"He drives a pimped-out Cadillac Escalade."
Etymology
Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”). Doublet of scalade.