escarmouche
See also: escarmouché
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French escarmouche. Doublet of skirmish and Scaramouche.
Noun edit
escarmouche (plural escarmouches)
French edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- IPA(key): /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/
- Homophones: escarmouchent, escarmouches
Noun edit
escarmouche f (plural escarmouches)
Verb edit
escarmouche
- inflection of escarmoucher:
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “escarmouche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.