chamade

American  

[shuh-mahd] / ʃəˈmɑd /

noun

Military Archaic.

1. a signal by drum or trumpet inviting an enemy to a parley.

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chamade British  

/ ʃəˈmɑːd /

noun

1. military (formerly) a signal by drum or trumpet inviting an enemy to a parley

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Etymology

Origin of chamade

1675–85; < French < Portuguese chamada, equivalent to cham ( ar ) to sound (< Latin clamāre to shout; claim ) + -ada -ade ¹

Example Sentences

What intense pleasure swimming in his eye as he stood over the corporal, reading the paragraph ten times over to him, as he was at work, lest, peradventure, he should make the breach an inch too wide,—or leave it an inch too narrow.——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—Heaven!

From Project Gutenberg

All the morning then we remained in the greatest uncertainty, but about three of the afternoon Colonel Cotton rode up the street with a dragoon and a drum beating a chamade before him, and then we knew that these rumours were indeed the truth.

From Project Gutenberg

Chamade, sham′ad, n. a signal inviting a parley.

From Project Gutenberg

At least that's the Deneuve of late, for while La Chamade is based on a Fran�oise Sagan novel, it somewhat resembles Belle de Jour and, to a lesser extent, The April Fools.

From Time Magazine Archive

When la chamade begins to pulse through Lucile and Antoine, Clare taps out her surrender and Charles shrewdly retreats.

From Time Magazine Archive