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
"It is strange," said D'Artagnan, "that I don't yet see the king's flag upon the walls, or hear the drums beat the chamade."
From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre
On Sunday, to our surprise, about three in the afternoon," writes the Highlander from his prison, "we saw a drum of the enemy beating a chamade in the street.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Thomson, Mrs.
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
Whereby the Siege of Dantzig ended in chamade, and levying of penalties; penalties severe to a degree, though Friedrich Wilhelm interceded what he could.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Carlyle, Thomas
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