Chamade
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For the French novel by Françoise Sagan, see La chamade. For the car, see Renault 19. For the organ stop, see En chamade. For the perfume, see Guerlain.
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 chiamate, from Latin clamare, to call.
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