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‖ chamade Mil.|ʃamad|
[F. chamade, ad. Pg. chamada, f. chamar:—L. clāmāre to call.]
A signal by beat of drum or sound of trumpet inviting to a parley.
1684Lond. Gaz. No. 1936/2 The..Governor of Luxemburg, being pressed..to desire a Parley..caused the Chamade to be beat. 1711S. Centlivre Marplot iii. i, There's more danger of my raising the siege, than her beating the Chamade. 1831Lincoln Her. 1 July 2/6 The day in which the Irish yeomanry force shall be suppressed..the representatives of British government may beat a chamade from what is now his Majesty's Castle of Dublin. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. I. iv. v. 311 Stralsund instantly beat the chamade..and all was surrender in those regions. |