escapade

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The Word of the Day for December 3 is:=20

escapade   \ESS-kuh-payd\   noun
          : a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved o=
r conventional conduct

Example sentence:
          His latest film is a screwball comedy depicting the calamitous=
 escapades of two men who stow away on a cruise ship.

Did you know?
     When it was first used in English, "escapade" referred to an act of=
 escaping or fleeing from confinement or restraint. The relationship bet=
ween "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 coveri=
ng or cloak." While "escape" took its route through Anglo-French and Mid=
dle English, however, "escapade" made its way into English by way of the=
 Spanish "escaper"("to escape")and the French "escapade."=20





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