Other forms: escapades
An escapade is a wild adventure that breaks the rules a little. A drunken escapade, youthful escapades, another escapade.
The word forgives as it describes: calling something an escapade says it was foolish rather than wrong. It is nearly always used of the past and often of somebody young.
1nounescapadeA wild adventure that breaks the rules a little.
“Their late-night escapade ended with the police bringing them home.”
escapade is an adventure.
French escapade comes through Spanish from a Latin word meaning to slip out of one's cloak, the root of escape.
Vulgar Latin
*excappō
osp
escapada
French
escapade — the act of escaping; a trick
English, today
escapade
Built from
Borrowed from French escapade (“the act of escaping; a trick”), itself borrowed from osp escapada, from escapar (“to escape”), from Vulgar Latin excappō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA