escalade
pronunciation
How to pronounce escalade in British English:
UK [ˌeskə'leɪd]
How to pronounce escalade in American English:
US [ˌeskə'leɪd]
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- Noun:
- an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification)
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- Verb:
- climb up and over
Word Origin
- escalade (n.)
- 1590s, "action of using ladders to scale the walls of a fortified place," from Middle French escalade (16c.) "an assault with ladders on a fortification," from Italian scalata, fem. past participle of scalare "to climb by means of a ladder," from scala "ladder," related to Latin scandere "to climb" (see scan). For initial e-, see e-. Also in early use in English in Spanish form escalada, later corrupted to escalado. As the name of a brand of luxury SUV by Cadillac, from 1999.
Example
- 1. When he arrived at the armani party , he had barely exited the escalade when a young man with an australian accent approached him for a handshake .
- 2. There were two men that hurried into the car , the escalade stampeded through the throngs of paparazzi and zoomed off towards the halo of lights illuminating the night sky called casinos .
- 3. It says the escalade is more than 6 times as likely as the average vehicle to be targeted by thieves and has overall theft losses more than 10 times larger than the average for all passenger vehicles .
- 4. Investigators are seeking information from mr. woods and his wife about the accident early friday in which mr. woods drove his cadillac escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree in front of his next-door neighbor 's home .
- 5. What about this black escalade ? What happened ?