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es⋅ca⋅drille

  [es-kuh-dril, es-kuh-dril; Fr. es-ka-dree-yuh ]
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–noun, plural -drilles  [-drilz, -drilz; Fr. -dree-yuh ] .
1. a squadron or divisional unit of airplanes: the Lafayette Escadrille of World War I.
2. Obsolete. a small naval squadron.
Origin:
1910–15; < F: flotilla, MF < Sp escuadrilla, dim. of escuadra squadron
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es·ca·drille   (ěs'kə-drĭl', -drē')   
n.  A unit of a European air command, as in France during World War I, typically containing ten or more aircraft.

[French, from Spanish escuadrilla, diminutive of escuadra, squadron, from escuadrar, to square off, from Vulgar Latin *exquadrāre; see square.]
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