chamade
A signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley.
Noun
- A signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley.
- 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. - 1762, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy,...
Origin
Borrowed from French chamade, from Italian or Portuguese, from Latin clamare.