chamade
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chamade
1675–85; < French < Portuguese chamada, equivalent to cham ( ar ) to sound (< Latin clamāre to shout; see claim) + -ada -ade 1
Example Sentences
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When la chamade begins to pulse through Lucile and Antoine, Clare taps out her surrender and Charles shrewdly retreats.
From Time Magazine Archive
I answered in my heat, "I knew of no chamade; what poltroonery or what treachery had been going on, I knew not!"
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas
They say, he even heard the chamade beating in Stralsund next day, and that a Danish frigate had nearly taken him; both which statements are perhaps also a little mythical.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 by Carlyle, Thomas
The poor Invalides have sunk under their battlements, or rise only with reversed muskets: they have made a white flag of napkins; go beating the chamade, or seeming to beat, for one can hear nothing.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
The chief drum beats used by the infantry in the 17th century8 were call, troop, preparative, march, battaile and retreat; these were later9 changed to general, r�veill�, assembly or troop, tattoo, chamade, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
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