camisado
noun
a military attack made at night.
camisade
-
a variation of
camisado.
Example Sentences
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Let us, then, say with Mr. Leaf that the Book begins with "exaggerated despondency" and ends with "hasty exultation," in consequence of a brilliant camisade, wherein Odysseus and Diomede massacre a Thracian contingent.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
It was a pretty camisade, I doubt not, Ranald MacEagh, a very sufficient onslaught, and not unworthily discharged.
From A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott
