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Word entry · 8 letters

escapade

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"Carefree adventure"

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈɛskəˌpeɪd/Part of speech nounSorted aacdeepsStarts with EEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. any carefree episode

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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; […]
  • [Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
  • He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.

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