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Webster 1913 Edition
Escapade
Esˊca-pade′
,Noun.
[F., fr. Sp.
escapada
escape, fr. escapar
to escape; or F., fr. It. scappata
escape, escapade, fr. scappare
to escape. see Escape
.] 1.
The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.
2.
Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.
Carlyle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Escapade
ESCAPA'DE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
escapade
escapade
English
Noun
escapade (plural escapades)
- A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
- 1724, Daniel Defoe (authorship disputed), "Capt. Howel Davis and His Crew" in A General History of the Pyrates:
- The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. . . . The best of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Visits of Escapade or Recreation.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary - Volume II, ch. 9:
- [Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
- 1918, P. G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim, ch. 1:
- He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.
- 2011 March 4, Richard Corliss, "The Adjustment Bureau" (film review), Time (retrieved 23 March 2014):
- He seems on the verge of winning the New York Senate election when the New York Post runs a photo of David’s exposed butt in a mooning escapade from his college days.
- 1724, Daniel Defoe (authorship disputed), "Capt. Howel Davis and His Crew" in A General History of the Pyrates:
Translations
daring or adventurous act; undertaking which goes against convention