[Fr. esclandre, later form of OF. escandre, escandle:—L. scandalum: see SCANDAL and SLANDER.] Unpleasant notoriety; an occurrence that gives rise to it; a disturbance, scene.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, I. 209 (F. Hall). That painful esclandre on the promenade.
1857. Kingsley, Two Y. Ago, xi. II. 11. Scoutbush, to avoid esclandre and misery … paid her her dividends as usual.
1881. Lady Herbert, Edith, 18. Since the last ‘esclandre’ he had held little or no communication with her.
1882. J. C. Morison, Macaulay, ii. 55. We cannot imagine him doing anything wrong, or even indecorous: an elopement, an esclandre of any kind, cannot be associated even in imagination with his name.
