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Escapade vs Escalade - What's the difference?

escapade | escalade |

As nouns the difference between escapade and escalade

is that escapade is a daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention while escalade is an act of scaling walls or fortifications.

As a verb escalade is

to scale the walls of a fortification.

escapade

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
  • * 1724 , :
    • 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 , , 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 , , 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, , " 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.

    escalade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of scaling walls or fortifications
    • An escalade was required for the warriors to attack the troops.

    Verb

    (escalad)
  • (military, dated) To scale the walls of a fortification.

    • Derived terms

    * escalader ----