escadrille

Borrowed from French escadrille, from Middle French, from Spanish escuadrilla, from Latin exquadrare (“to square off”).

escadrille (plural escadrilles)

1. A small squadron.
2. (historical, military) A unit of (usually) ten or more aircraft in World War I France.

• Wikipedia article on the Lafayette Escadrille

Borrowed from French escadrille.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛs.kaːˈdri.jə/
• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧dril‧le

escadrille f or n (plural escadrilles)

1. escadrille, small squadron; especially of aeroplanes

• eskader

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.kad.ʁij/

escadrille f (plural escadrilles)

1. squadron (of airplanes)
2. flotilla

• “escadrille” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).