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scalade, n. Now rare or Obs. (skəˈlɑːd) Also 7 skal(l)ade, scallet. [ad. It. scalada (Florio), now scalata (= Sp. escalada, whence F. escalade escalade n.), f. scalare to scale, f. scala ladder.] 1. = escalade n. 1.1591 Garrard's Art Warre 63 A Wall, Trench, Scalade, Bulwarke. 1600 Holland Livy xxvi...
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scalado
† scaˈlado Obs. Also 6 skallado, skallader, 6–7 scallado, scallada, scalada. [a. It. scalada: see prec. and -ado.] 1. = scalade n. 1.1585–6 Earl of Leicester Corr. (Camden) 429 We tooke another of the fortes..by a flat skallader. 1591 Sir H. Unton Corr. (Roxb.) 254 If it be taken by the enemy by sca...
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scallet
▪ I. scallet local. (ˈskælɪt) Also -ot. A bed of freestone in Wiltshire and Somerset.1825 in Britton Beauties Wilts. III. 414 The upper beds [of the Portland series of oolitic rock] are known to the quarry-men by the name of the Scallot beds. 1839 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. Oct. 376/2 The scallet, whi...
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escalade
▪ I. escalade, n. (ɛskəˈleɪd) Also 8 escallade. [a. Fr. escalade, ad. Sp. escalada = It. scalata, f. It. and med.L. scalāre to scale, f. L. scāla ladder. Cf. scalade, scalado.] 1. The action of scaling the walls of a fortified place by the use of ladders; also transf. and fig.1598 Florio, Scalada, a...
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card
▪ I. card, n.1 (kɑːd) [a. F. carde teasel-head, wool-card (15th c. in Littré); app. ad. Sp. or It. carda thistle, teasel, card, a deriv. fem. form from com. Romanic (It., Sp., Pg.,) cardo masc., thistle:—med.L. cardus:—L. carduus thistle. Adopted in WG. as *karda, OHG. charta (wk. fem.), MHG. charte...
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