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Definition of Chamade
1. n. A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
Definition of Chamade
1. Noun. (military historical) A signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chamade
1. a signal made with a drum [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chamade
Literary usage of Chamade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb: An Officer of the by Isaac Q. Leake (1850)
"Order to march.—Cross the Hudson.—The Delaware.—Head of Elk.—James River.—Yorktown
invested.—Redoubts stormed.—French Battery carried.—Retaken.— chamade. ..."
2. The British Essayists edited by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"... that thee observing our men to be masters of all the which were necessary for
a general attack, bi chamade, and hostages were received from the ..."
3. Orderly Book of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne: From His Entry Into the State of by John Burgoyne (1860)
"... minutes before the chamade was beat at the advanced guard of the enemy, and
an officer ... chamade ..."
4. History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1866)
"So that Quadt is totally driven in again, Austrians along with him; and is obliged
to beat chamade ;—D'O following the example, ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"Returning to the Field-Gate, I found that the Commandant had beaten chamade a
second time ; there were marching in, by this Field-Gate, two Battalions of ..."
6. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"Returning to the Field-Gate, I found that the Commandant had beaten chamade a
second time ; there were marching in, by this Field-Gate, two Battalions of ..."
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