escalade

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It is, for Coward, rather Victorian in spirit as well as in setting; it scents its sinfulness with lavender, bodices its escalades in whalebone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here they overflowed in dusty cataracts, and tottered upward in crazy escalades and tremulous piles.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

These are adapted to offence and defence, with and against the effects of bombs, balls, escalades, he.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

There was more frequent firing upon the town, and feints were made with ladders and ropes for escalades at different points.

From The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 by Lespérance, John

As for military escalades, the author extols the ladder of Bois-Rosé, so called from the captain who surprised Fécamp in former days by climbing up the cliff.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave