‖ esclandre
(ɛsklɑ̃dr)
[Fr. esclandre, later form of OF. escandre, escandle:—L. scandalum: see scandal and slander.]
Unpleasant notoriety; an occurrence which gives rise to it; a disturbance, scene.
| 1832 Greville Mem. 1 June (1874) II. xviii. 306 Threatening to make an esclandre and leave the château. 1855 Thackeray Newcomes (F. Hall). 1857 Kingsley Two Y. Ago xi. II. 11 Scoutbush, to avoid ésclandre and misery..paid her her dividends as usual. 1881 M. E. Herbert Edith 18 Since the last ‘esclandre’ he had held little or no communication with her. 1882 J. C. Morison Macaulay 55 An esclandre of any kind, cannot be associated even in imagination with his name. |