OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 25750

escapade

/ˈɛskəˌpeɪd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
andanza • aventura • correría • escapada • travesura
A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.
[Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
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