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esclandre

esclandre noun: an incident that occasions much disapproving talk; scandalous conduct; a scene.

Noun

esclandre (countable and uncountable, plural esclandres)

  1. An incident that occasions much disapproving talk; scandalous conduct; a scene.
    • The simple truth, if adhered to, might not have answered the purposes of the narrator, because lapses from conjugal fidelity are unhappily not crimes unknown or unpardonable in Italy; but when to it were added exaggerated representations of the disgraceful esclandre of a public elopement, and the...1835, Countess of Blessington, chapter XLVI, in The Two Friends
    • "Not a word to my mother!" Pen cried out, in a state of great alarm. "She would never get over it. An esclandre of that sort would kill her, I do believe. […]"1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XVI, in Pendennis
  2. (archaic) Infamy.
    • The old Lord had, wisely enough, settled in his will that Lucia was to enjoy the interest of her fortune from the time that she came out, provided she did not marry without her guardian's leave; and Scoutbush, to avoid esclandre and misery, thought it as well to waive the proviso, and paid her her...1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I

Examples of esclandre in a sentence

  • Louisans were involved to permit the esclandre going very far.1904, Claude Hazeltine Wetmore, chapter IV, in The Battle Against Bribery: Being the Only Complete Narrative of Joseph W. Folk's Warfare on...
  • AfterEton he had initially attended Oxford, where—according to Walter Scott—"there was some esclandre or other which forced him to move to Edinburgh University […]2012, John Bew' Castlereagh: A Life, Chapter 19

Forms of esclandre

pluralesclandres

Origin of esclandre

French. Doublet of slander and scandal

Questions about esclandre

What does esclandre mean?
Esclandre means an incident that occasions much disapproving talk; scandalous conduct; a scene.
How do you use esclandre in a sentence?
Louisans were involved to permit the esclandre going very far.
What part of speech is esclandre?
Esclandre is a noun.
What is the plural of esclandre?
The plural of esclandre is esclandres.

Words near esclandre in the dictionary

  1. eschynite
  2. eschynites
  3. ESCI
  4. escin
  5. escitalopram
  6. esclandre
  7. esclandres
  8. esclavage
  9. esclavages
  10. esclavagism
  11. esclop

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