Chamade
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In war, a chamade was a certain beat of a drum, or sound of a trumpet, which was addressed to 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. Gilles Ménage derives the word from the Italian , from Latin , to call. Marin Mersenne recorded both a chamade drum pattern, and a chamade cavalry trumpet signal in his annotated copy of the . The word was taken from French into German from the late seventeenth century in the military phrase , meaning 'to surrender', and became a in the late nineteenth century.
In war, a chamade was a certain beat of a drum, or sound of a trumpet, which was addressed to 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. Gilles Ménage derives the word from the Italian , from Latin , to call. Marin Mersenne recorded both a chamade drum pattern, and a chamade cavalry trumpet signal in his annotated copy of the . The word was taken from French into German from the late seventeenth century in the military phrase , meaning 'to surrender', and became a in the late nineteenth century. ==See also== White flag
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