Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Milit., the beat of a drum or sound of a trumpet inviting an enemy to a parley.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mil.) A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military, historical A signal sounded on a
drum ortrumpet inviting aparley .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am appalled and ashamed at British complicity in this anti-Israel chamade.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Je traine les pieds, mon coeur bat la chamade, j'ai froid partout le corps mais mes joues sont en feu, j'ai des vertiges ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Ca m'a rien fait j'ai trouvé ca si naturel de les avoir devant moi que: Pas d'coeur qui bat la chamade, pas chaud, pas d'jambes flasques ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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But when the chamade was beat, and the corporal helped my uncle up it, and followed with the colours in his hand, to fix them upon the ramparts — Heaven!
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But when the chamade was beat, and the corporal helped my uncle up it, and followed with the colours in his hand, to fix them upon the ramparts — Heaven!
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He looked at me and then he said, “Whenever you come into a room, mon coeur battait la chamade.”
All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995
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He looked at me and then he said, “Whenever you come into a room, mon coeur battait la chamade.”
All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995
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A white flag waved on the rampart, and the drums of the garrison beat the _chamade_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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Whilst the chamade was beating, Colonel Cotton, sent by General Wills, rode up the street, and alighted at the sign of the Mitre: the firing meantime had not ceased from several of the houses: the common soldiers were ignorant of the real state of the case, and believed that General
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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We can all make a shrewd guess at the meaning of fanfaronnade: how many average readers have the remotest idea of what a chamade 1 is? and is the function of newspapers to force upon us against our will the buying of French dictionaries?
Foreign Words. 1908
chained_bear commented on the word chamade
"a signal made by the beat of a drum, or some other sound, when any matter is to be proposed, such as to bury the dead." (citation in list description)
October 10, 2008