chamade

Borrowed from French chamade, from Italian or Portuguese, from Latin clamare.

• IPA^(key): /ʃəˈmɑːd/

chamade (plural chamades)

1. (military, historical) A signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley.
   • 1762, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 6 (Penguin 2003), page 402:

     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.

• Machead, headcam

From Italian chiamata.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.mad/
• Homophone: chamades

chamade f (plural chamades)

1. chamade

• “chamade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

chamade

1. second-person plural imperative of chamar