Chamade

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For the French novel by Françoise Sagan, see La chamade. For the car, see Renault 19

In war, a chamade was a certain beat of a drum, or sound of a trumpet, which was given the enemy as a kind of signal, to inform them of some proposition to be made to the commander; either to capitulate, to have leave to bury their dead, make a truce, etc. Ménage derives the word from the Italian chiamate, of clamare, to cry.

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