escaille

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) scale (flat, hard part of an outer coating)
 * 2) * Michel de Montaigne, Essais (Livre II), edition P. Villey et Saulnier, 1595
 * là où toutes les autres creatures, nature les a revestuës de coquilles, de gousses, d’escorse, de poil, de laine, de pointes, de cuir, de bourre, de plume, d’escaille, de toison, et de soye selon le besoin de leur estre
 * While all other creatures, natures has adorned them with shells, cloves, bark, fur, wool, spines, leather, hair, feathers, scales, fleeces or silk depending on what their being needs
 * 1) ring or plate of armor
 * 2) * Michel de Montaigne, Essais (Livre II), edition P. Villey et Saulnier, 1595
 * ce sont les escailles, dequoy nos ancestres avoient fort accoustumé de se servir
 * These are the armored plates our ancestors had the strong habit of using

Etymology
From, from ( > English ), from. .

Noun

 * 1) scale (flat, hard part of an outer coating)
 * 2) ring or plate of armor