Arch. [a. Fr. escape, earlier escappe (Godef.), ad. L. scapus: see SCAPE2.] Properly, the shaft of a column; but (through confusion with ESCAPE sb.1) explained in Dicts. as = APOPHEGY.
1846. Parker, Gloss. Archit. (1875), 109. Escape, term used sometimes for the Apophyge.
1850. Weale, Dict. Terms, Escape, the scape of a column in architecture.
