#434 escapade

escapade- a wild or exciting adventure, especially one that is mischievous or unlawful; scrape; any lighthearted or carefree episode; prank; romp

C17 from French, from Old Italian scappata, from Vulgar Latin excappare to escape

This shameless escapade is just more evidence that this brazen, swashbuckling cowboy had no regard for his peers.

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