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It is the American/English trade name of the Otis elevator company. Derived from a French word - escolade - meaning 'to assault a fortification with ladders, coined in the early 1600''s. In addition it is also drawn from the Latin from- scala- meaning ladder with the suffix - lator- added, in use from about 1927

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