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
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.
General Browne summons them in Vilshofen, this day; and, on their negative, storms in upon them, bursts them to pieces; upon which they beat chamade.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas
"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 Dumas père, Alexandre
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
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