An event which gives rise to scandal. “By the famous Boulogne esclandre.”
“Since the last ‘esclandreʹ he had held little or no communication with her.”—Lady Herbert: Edith, 18.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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