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Definition of Escadrille
1. Noun. A small squadron.
2. Noun. An air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I).
Definition of Escadrille
1. Noun. A small squadron. ¹
2. Noun. A unit of (usually) ten or more aircraft in World War I France. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Escadrille
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escadrille
Literary usage of Escadrille
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "En L'air!" (In the Air) Three Years on and Above Three Fronts by Bert Hall (1918)
"Our organization, which was first known as the American escadrille, was due to
Norman ... We continued to call it the American escadrille until the American ..."
2. From the First Shot: A Picture History of the Great Waredited by Hannah White edited by Hannah White (1918)
"He designed the Indian head, below, which the escadrille has adopted. THE LAFAYETTE
escadrille International Film Above are two planes in full war paint. ..."
3. The Way of the Eagle by Charles John Biddle (1919)
"Have already written you all about the various complications in Paris which
finally ended in my coming out here to the escadrille Lafayette, so shall say no ..."
4. The Vanguard of American Volunteers in the Fighting Lines and in by Edwin Wilson Morse (1918)
"XXXII GENET IN THE AMERICAN escadrille YOUNG Edmond Genet was very happy when,
early in June, 1916, he found himself no longer a Legionnaire, but a student ..."
5. The Lafayette Flying Corps by Charles Nordhoff (1920)
"And see escadrille Lafayette. escadrille Lafayette, suggested as title of American
squadron by ... And see escadrille Américaine, Lafayette Flying Corps. ..."
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