Escapade

//ˈɛskəˌpeɪd// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.

    "The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. […] The beſt of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Viſits of Eſcapade or Recreation; […]"

  2. 2
    any carefree episode wordnet
  3. 3
    a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) wordnet

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adventureadventureanticbatbenderbinge

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"He met his mistress during a country escapade."

Etymology

Borrowed from French escapade (“the act of escaping; a trick”), itself borrowed from Old Spanish escapada, from escapar (“to escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre.

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