escarmouche

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See also: escarmouché

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French escarmouche. Doublet of skirmish and Scaramouche.

Noun

escarmouche (plural escarmouches)

  1. (obsolete) A skirmish.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French escarmuche, from Old French escharmuche (“skirmish”), from Old Italian scaramuccia (“skirmish”), from Lombardic skirmen or Frankish *skirmijan (“to shelter”).

Cognate with Old High German skirmen, scirmen (“to shield, defend, protect”), skirm (“shade, protection”). More at skirmish, screen.

Pronunciation

Noun

escarmouche f (plural escarmouches)

  1. skirmish; dispute
  2. (military) skirmish (small combat)

Verb

escarmouche

  1. inflection of escarmoucher:
    1. first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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