levet
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A musical call or strain intended to arouse or excite; a blast of a trumpet to awaken soldiers in the morning.
Examples
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Judge Sewall, as rigid and stern a Puritan as any of the earliest days, records with some pride his being greeted with a levet, or blast of trumpets, under his window, early on the morning of January 1, 1697; while he himself celebrated the opening of the new century with a very poor poem of his own making, which he caused to be cried or recited throughout the town of Boston by the town bellman.
Note
The word 'levet' comes from a French word meaning 'to raise'.
