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a regret you can't wait to make, dressed up in better lighting
means a daring, mischievous, or unconventional adventure that breaks free from the rules of ordinary life.
from From the Spanish 'escapada' and Italian 'scappata,' meaning a flight or escape, which English borrowed via French in the 17th century. All trace back to the Late Latin 'excappare' — literally 'to slip out of one's cape,' the image of a fugitive shrugging off the cloak a pursuer has grabbed and dashing away free.
- french roots
- From escapader, to flee or break loose
- prison link
- Shares ancestry with 'escape' and 'cape'-throwing flight
- moral wink
- Implies mischief too fun to fully condemn
- plural appeal
- Rarely solo; escapades travel in legendary bunches
great escape — 76 allied prisoners fled stalag luft iii in 1944; 50 were executed
papillon escape — henri charrière escaped french guiana penal colony in 1941 after 12 years
frank morris alcatraz — morris and anglin brothers escaped alcatraz in 1962; never definitively caught