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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

chamade

, fr. Pg.

chamada

, fr.

chamar

to call, fr. L.

clamare

(Mil.)

A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.

They beat the

chamade

, and sent us carte blanche.

Addison.

Noun.

In war, the beat of a drum or sound of a trumpet, inviting an enemy to a parley; as for making a proposition for a truce, or for a capitulation.