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Definition of escalade
: an act of scaling especially the walls of a fortification
escalade
transitive verbescalader
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Within 10 minutes of the shooting, Aurora police and Kane County sheriff's deputies arrived on Liberty Street to find the Escalade parked near where Jackson lived, according to authorities.
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Her black Escalade shuttles her between appearances like a chariot, and woe to those who ride alongside and disrupt her delicate equilibrium.
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Origin and Etymology of escalade
French, from Italian scalata, from scalare to scale, from scala ladder, from Late Latin — more at scale
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