escapade
noun
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When it was first used in English, escapade referred to an act of escaping or fleeing from confinement or restraint. The relationship between escape and escapade does not end there. Both words derive from the Vulgar Latin verb excappare, meaning "to escape," a product of the Latin prefix ex- and the Late Latin noun cappa, meaning "head covering or cloak." While escape took its route through Anglo-French and Middle English, however, escapade made its way into English by way of the Spanish escapar ("to escape") and the French escapade.
Examples of escapade in a Sentence
Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
Writer-director Dean Imperial loses on such a gamble with his tedious feature debut, which tracks an unhinged night of escapades between a bunch of poker buddies.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
After their island escapades, the foursome return to the boat and start playing spin the bottle, sans bottle.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Mar. 2025
The United States was entangled in foreign wars, and the CIA became a major facilitator of America’s global escapades, with covert operations in nearly every corner of the world.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Escapade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/escapade. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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