escalade
Meanings
noun
- An act of scaling walls or fortifications.
verb
- To scale the walls of a fortification.
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Etymology
Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”). Doublet of scalade.
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