Mil. Obs. or arch. [a. F. camisade.] = CAMISADO.

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1560.  Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 268 a. The Emperour attempteth the matter by a Camisade in the night, and chouseth out of the whole nombre the fotemen of Almaignes and Spanyardes, & comaundeth them to put on whyte shirtes ouer their harnesse.

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1690.  W. Walker, Idiom. Anglo-Lat., 80. Others were to set upon to give a camisade to the camp.

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1819.  Scott, Leg. Montrose, xiii. ‘It was a pretty camisade, I doubt not … a very sufficient onslaught.’

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1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. i. 56.

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1864.  Reader, 28 May, 678. The word ‘Camisade’ … had its origin in the surprise of a French post near Rebéc by the Marquis de Pescaire; the Marquis’s men on that occasion having worn white shirts over their clothes to distinguish them.

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