Mil. [F. chamade, ad. Pg. chamada, f. chamar:—L. clāmāre to call.] A signal by beat of drum or sound of trumpet inviting to a parley.
1684. Lond. Gaz., No. 1936/2. The … Governor of Luxemburg, being pressed … to desire a Parley … caused the Chamade to be beat.
1711. Mrs. Centlivre, Marplot, III. i. There’s more danger of my raising the siege, than her beating the Chamade.
1831. Lincoln Her., 1 July, 2/6. The day in which the Irish yeomanry force shall be suppressed … the representatives of British government may beat a chamade from what is now his Majesty’s Castle of Dublin.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., I. IV. v. 311. Stralsund instantly beat the chamade … and all was surrender in those regions.
