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
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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
A white flag waved on the rampart, and the drums of the garrison beat the chamade.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various
"It is strange," said D'Artagnan, "that I don't yet see the king's flag on the walls, or hear the drums beat the chamade."
From The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas père
Upon which Harsch, next morning, has to beat the chamade, and surrender Prisoner of War.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle
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 Thomas Carlyle
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