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Webster 1913 Edition

Chamade

Cha-made

,
Noun.
[F.
chamade
, fr. Pg.
chamada
, fr.
chamar
to call, fr. L.
clamare
.]
(Mil.)
A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
They beat the
chamade
, and sent us carte blanche.
Addison.

Webster 1828 Edition

Chamade

CHAMADE

,
Noun.
In war, the beat of a drum or sound of a trumpet, inviting an enemy to a parley; as for making a proposition for a truce, or for a capitulation.

Definition 2024

chamade

chamade

English

Noun

chamade ‎(plural chamades)

  1. (military, historical) A signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley.
    • 1762, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 6 (Penguin 2003), page 402:
      But when the chamade was beat, and the corporal helped my uncle up it, and followed with the colours in his hand, to fix them upon the ramparts.

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Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Italian chiamata.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃa.mad/
  • Homophone: chamades

Noun

chamade f ‎(plural chamades)

  1. chamade

Galician

Verb

chamade

  1. second-person plural imperative of chamar

Etymology

From French chamade, from Italian or Portuguese, from Latin clamare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃəˈmɑːd/

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