escaille
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French escaille.
Noun
escaille f (plural escailles)
- scale (flat, hard part of an outer coating)
- Michel de Montaigne, Essais (Livre II), edition P. Villey et Saulnier, 1595
- là où toutes les autres creatures, nature les a revestuës de coquilles, de gousses, d’escorse, de poil, de laine, de pointes, de cuir, de bourre, de plume, d’escaille, de toison, et de soye selon le besoin de leur estre
- While all other creatures, natures has adorned them with shells, cloves, bark, fur, wool, spines, leather, hair, feathers, scales, fleeces or silk depending on what their being needs
- là où toutes les autres creatures, nature les a revestuës de coquilles, de gousses, d’escorse, de poil, de laine, de pointes, de cuir, de bourre, de plume, d’escaille, de toison, et de soye selon le besoin de leur estre
- Michel de Montaigne, Essais (Livre II), edition P. Villey et Saulnier, 1595
- ring or plate of armor
- Michel de Montaigne, Essais (Livre II), edition P. Villey et Saulnier, 1595
- ce sont les escailles, dequoy nos ancestres avoient fort accoustumé de se servir
- These are the armored plates our ancestors had the strong habit of using
- ce sont les escailles, dequoy nos ancestres avoient fort accoustumé de se servir
- Michel de Montaigne, Essais (Livre II), edition P. Villey et Saulnier, 1595
Descendants
- French: écaille
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Frankish *skallija (“scale, shell”), from Proto-Germanic *skaljō (“scale, shell, husk”) ( > English shell), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut, part, sunder, split, divide”). Doublet of escale.
Noun
escaille oblique singular, f (oblique plural escailles, nominative singular escaille, nominative plural escailles)
Descendants
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- Old French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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