chamade
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French chamade, from Italian or Portuguese, from Latin clamare.
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Noun edit
chamade (plural chamades)
- (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, published 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.
Translations edit
a signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley
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French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chamade f (plural chamades)
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Further reading edit
- “chamade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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chamade