esclandre, n.m., fracas, uproar; scandal, exposure, scene. Faire —; to make a scene, to cause an uproar.

esclavage, n.m., slavery; bondage; thralldom; inthrallment; drudgery. Réduire à l’—; to enslave, to reduce to slavery.

esclave, n.m.f., slave; bondman; drudge. Commandeur d’—s; slave-driver. Propriétaire d’—s; slave-owner. On est — dans cette maison; one is a very drudge in that house (i.e. the work is endless in).

esclave, adj., slavish. Avoir une âme —; to have a slavish, base disposition.

escobard, n.m., equivocator, shuffler.

escobarder, v.n., to equivocate, to prevaricate, to shuffle.

escobarderie, n.f., prevarication, shuffling, subterfuge.

escoffion, n.m., cap, hair-net.

escogriffe, n.m., sharper, shark, sponger; tall, lank, ungainly fellow.

escompte (ès-cont), n.m., discount. À —; at a discount. Faire l’—; to discount.