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.
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Courtenay Rudzinski, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2024
Eleven audience members walked out of the theater, nine during the opening scene, and one on-looker lost their lunch watching the latest escapades of series mascot Art the Clown, played by David Howard Thornton.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
The film, set in 2008, captures Chris’ adolescent escapades — the fumbles, first kisses (one of the film’s most priceless sequences), a first toke of pot and his many squabbles with his mom (Joan Chen) and older sis (Shirley Chen).
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024
After the incident, Tangie said that she's applied Zoe's Target escapade to encourage her daughter to figure out her schoolwork.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024
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“Escapade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/escapade. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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