Main Entry:

es·ca·lade

Pronunciation:

\ˈes-kə-ˌlād, -ˌläd\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

French, from Italian scalata, from scalare to scale, from scala ladder, from Late Latin — more at scale

Date:

1598

: an act of scaling especially the walls of a fortification

— escalade transitive verb

— es·ca·lad·er noun