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Definition of Escalades
1. escalade [v] - See also: escalade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escalades
Literary usage of Escalades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"How do ambitious pigmies, reared on their hind legs on mountains of arguments,
continue escalades? What a false and ridiculous image! ..."
2. The Art of War by Henri Jomini, Antoine Henri Jomini, George Henry Mendell, William Price Craighill (1862)
"Those gymnastic exercises are very useful which prepare soldiers for escalades
and passing obstacles; and the engineers may with great advantage give their ..."
3. Aide-mémoire to the Military Sciences: Framed from Contributions of Officers by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers (1853)
"... as they must be spread over very much of the breadth of the ditch.f But all
escalades, to be successful, must be a sort of * Vauban considered 36 feet ..."
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