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Definition of Echelle
1. a device for spreading light into its component colors [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Echelle
Literary usage of Echelle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)
"General indignation was excited by the cowardly example set by L'echelle, ...
L'echelle, who heard these shouts, conceived a stronger dislike than ever for ..."
2. Sir William Temple: The Stanhope Essay, 1908 by Edward Shefford Lyttel (1908)
"... bonne intention est une echelle trop courte.' IT would seem as if any great
public scheme to which Temple put his hand was as bound to end in failure as ..."
3. The City of the Sultan, And, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836 by Pardoe (Julia) (1837)
"... Sanctuary—The Screen—Throne of the Patriarch—The Holy Sepulchre—Singular
Appearance of the Congregation—Sociability of the Ladies—L'echelle des Marts— ..."
4. Italy, Spain, and Portugal: With an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça by William Beckford (1845)
"... leading to some steps cut in the rock, and justly called the Pas d'echelle.
I need not say we were obliged to dismount and toil up this ladder, ..."
5. The Pyrenees, West and East by Charles Richard Weld (1859)
"Start for the Breche de Roland. — Tradition respecting this Locality. — The Gorge
of Gavarnie.—L'echelle.—Val d'Heas.—The Virgin again. — The Lady of Heas. ..."
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