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A small squadron
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escadrille
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1893, from French escadrille , from Spanish escuadrilla , diminutive of escuadra "square, squad, squadron," from Vulgar Latin *exquadrare , from Latin quadrare "to square" (see quadrant ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An escadrille (literal translations: " squad " or "small squadron ") is a type of military unit, most often found in the air forces of some French speaking countries. While the term is frequently translated into English as "squadron", an escadrille was ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A small squadron. 2 A unit of (usually) ten or more aircraft in World War I France.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small squadron an air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I)
Usage examples of escadrille.
Lafayette Escadrille are mighty kind and sociable, but there are times when a fellow gets homesick.
On this account then he would have no difficulty whatever in leading his comrade straight back to the villa in which the entire Lafayette Escadrille of American fliers was quartered.
Do you think any of the fellows of the escadrille could be up to a prank?
It had been a pretty arduous day, too, and two members of the escadrille had new honors coming to them, since they had dropped enemy planes in full view of tens of thousands of cheering spectators, after thrilling combats high in the air.
And another of the escadrille had the honor of getting above those observation balloons before a couple of them could be hastily pulled down.
Tom knew what was going to happen as soon as he saw the chief star of the Lafayette Escadrille start his favorite attack.
But the Lafayette Escadrille lost none of its members, Tom and Jack were glad to learn.
During these quiet periods the members of the American escadrille were sometimes hard pushed for ways in which to pass the time away, and amuse themselves.
A survey developed the fact that there were a number in and out of the Lafayette Escadrille who possessed a talent of some kind or other.
Great was the delight of the whole Lafayette Escadrille when this confidential news was passed about.
Edouard had recently been making runs to rendezvous with the Escadrille Americain, a flying force with seven U.
This was the headstone of Will Fairchild, the World War One ace in the Lafayette Escadrille, after whom the airport was named.
I was a kid in California my flying instructor was a guy who had flown with the Lafayette Escadrille in France.
American mercenaries during the First World War formed the Lafayette Escadrille, a pursuit squadron in the French Air Force.
Biggles realised that this was all very flimsy, yet he could find no satisfactory reason to explain why the man, a French officer, should claim to belong to an Escadrille which events suggested was not his squadron at all.