escadrille
Americannoun
plural
escadrilles-
a squadron or divisional unit of airplanes.
the Lafayette Escadrille of World War I.
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Obsolete. a small naval squadron.
noun
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a French squadron of aircraft, esp in World War I
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a small squadron of ships
Etymology
Origin of escadrille
1910–15; < French: flotilla, Middle French < Spanish escuadrilla, diminutive of escuadra squadron
Example Sentences
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“I don’t think Prince minded going,” fellow escadrille pilot James R. McConnell wrote.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2016
After the United States entered the conflict, the escadrille was absorbed into the American air service, and today its members are considered the godfathers of the U.S.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2016
Life in the escadrille was glamorous and deadly.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2016
G�ring then was a national hero, one of Imperial Germany's greatest fighting aces, finally Commander of the late, great Baron Manfred von Richthofen's daredevil escadrille.
From Time Magazine Archive
The escadrille had just been sent to a quiet part of the front for two weeks' repos, but the day after my arrival orders came to fly to Belfort, for special duty.
From High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by Hall, James Norman
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