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  • noun Plural form of escalade.

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Examples

  • Nothing wrong with escalades, as it is a consumer best buy.

    The "G" in GM is for green? | The Greenwash Brigade | Marketplace from American Public Media 2009

  • With an auto industry on the precipice, the old Cadillacs, gas-guzzling escalades the size of tennis courts, will soon disappear.

    The Man Who Saved The Cadillac 2009

  • SANCHEZ: As this conflict escalades, we care because much of the world's oil comes from this region.

    CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2008 2008

  • How do ambitious pygmies, reared on their hind legs on mountains of arguments, continue escalades?

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Incidentally, your new land DOES, indeed, have an official language ... ebonics. unfortunately, not enough of the native ebonic-speaking population can get out of their escalades, and put down their bling-bling long enough to go and friggin 'vote. yet they continue to complain. hmmm.

    American Coastopia! 2004

  • Of escalades, of surprises, of breaches stormed, of camisades and ambushes, of dark treacheries and great heroisms did he descant to fire my youthful fancy, to fill me first with delight, and then with frenzy when

    The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • In the rear was a badly closed orchard which rolled down to an abandoned path, favorable to escalades of lovers.

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

  • Now, with his talk of adventures, and with high hopes, I was so heartened up, that, to my shame, my grief fell from me, and I went to my bed to dream of trenches and escalades, glory and gain.

    A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

  • There was more frequent firing upon the town, and feints were made with ladders and ropes for escalades at different points.

    The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 John Lesp��rance 1864

  • Mrs. Lake, too, had no confidence in any one but Abel as a nurse for her darling; the consequence of which was, that the little Jan was constantly trotting at his foster-brother's heels through the round - house, attempting valiant escalades on the ladders, and covering himself from head to foot with flour in the effort to cultivate a miller's thumb.

    Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

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