English
escamotage
Escamotage comes from French escamotage ‘conjuring’, and goes back to escamoter.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentescamoter‘to conjure away, to make disappear’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentescamotage‘conjuring’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentescamoter‘to conjure away, to make disappear’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentescamotage‘conjuring’
- Englishtodaysame form
Linked words
through Latin squāma ‘scale of a fish’
Today it means
noun trickery; legerdemain
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French escamoter / escamotage