écervelé, -e, adj., hare-brained, mad-brained, rash, giddy. Une tête —e; a mad-cap.
écervelé, n.m., -e, n.f., mad-cap; hare-brained person. C’est un —; he is not to be relied upon.
échafaud, n.m., scaffold; (arch.) stage; stand, gallows. — de service; temporary stage.
échafaudage, n.m., scaffolding, great preparations; display.
échafauder, v.n., to scaffold, to erect scaffolding; to pile up; to shore up.
échafauder, v.a., to make great preparations for a work; ☉to pillory.
s’échafauder, v.r., to be piled up; to be shored up; (fig.) to raise one’s self, to support one’s self, to find supporters.
échalas, n.m., prop for a vine; vine-stick; hop-pole. C’est un —; he is as thin as a lath.
échalassement, n.m., (hort.) propping.