escarmouche

Borrowed from French escarmouche

escarmouche (plural escarmouches)

1. (obsolete) A skirmish.

From Middle French escarmuche, from Old French escharmuche (“skirmish”), from Old Italian scaramuccia (“skirmish”), from Lombardic *skirmjan or Frankish *skirmijan, from Proto-Germanic *skirmijaną (“to shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old High German skirmen, scirmen (“to shield, defend, protect”), skirm (“shade, protection”). More at skirmish, screen.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/
• Homophones: escarmouchent, escarmouches

escarmouche f (plural escarmouches)

1. skirmish; dispute
2. (military) skirmish (small combat)

escarmouche

1. first-person singular present indicative of escarmoucher
2. third-person singular present indicative of escarmoucher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of escarmoucher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of escarmoucher
5. second-person singular imperative of escarmoucher

• escarmoucher

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