reveille
noun
a signal, as of a drum or bugle, sounded early in the morning to awaken military personnel and to alert them for assembly.
reveilles
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pluralof reveille.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Play a simple melody, he wrote, and he has: about 1,500 songs, show tunes and standards, ragtime and ballads, slow wistful waltzes and brisk up-tempo two- steps, reveries and reveilles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tents were pitched, and the people of Providence enjoyed the unusual spectacle of a field-camp, of reveilles, dress-parades, firing of artillery by sunrise and sunset, of tattoo and taps.
From Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery by Theodore Reichardt
The morning gun had long since sounded, and the reveilles at the forts and camps.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
In all garrison towns, guard-calls, and reveilles, and such like, make a fine, romantic interlude in civic business.
From The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson
