escalade.
An act of scaling walls or fortifications.
Meaning & usage
An act of scaling walls or fortifications.
An escalade was required for the warriors to attack the troops.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”). Doublet of scalade.
To scale the walls of a fortification.
Where this word comes from
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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