Definitions
Etymologies
- From French chamade, from Portuguese chamada, from chamar, from Latin clamare. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I am appalled and ashamed at British complicity in this anti-Israel chamade.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Je traine les pieds, mon coeur bat la chamade, j'ai froid partout le corps mais mes joues sont en feu, j'ai des vertiges ...”
“Ca m'a rien fait j'ai trouvé ca si naturel de les avoir devant moi que: Pas d'coeur qui bat la chamade, pas chaud, pas d'jambes flasques ...”
“But when the chamade was beat, and the corporal helped my uncle up it, and followed with the colours in his hand, to fix them upon the ramparts — Heaven!”
“He looked at me and then he said, “Whenever you come into a room, mon coeur battait la chamade.””
“A white flag waved on the rampart, and the drums of the garrison beat the _chamade_.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
“Whilst the chamade was beating, Colonel Cotton, sent by General Wills, rode up the street, and alighted at the sign of the Mitre: the firing meantime had not ceased from several of the houses: the common soldiers were ignorant of the real state of the case, and believed that General”
“We can all make a shrewd guess at the meaning of fanfaronnade: how many average readers have the remotest idea of what a chamade 1 is? and is the function of newspapers to force upon us against our will the buying of French dictionaries?”
“It was he who by doctoring the Ems dispatch in 1870 converted a chamade into a fanfaronnade and thus rendered the Franco-German war inevitable.”
“For, Sir Duncan, if it pleases you to notice, your house is overcrowed, and slighted, or commanded, as we military men say, by yonder round hillock to the landward, whereon an enemy might stell such a battery of cannon as would make ye glad to beat a chamade within forty-eight hours, unless it pleased the Lord extraordinarily to show mercy. '”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chamade’.
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250 More Spelling Words
More words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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Having: C; m; e
Goodies pulled from a list I've compiled of most-every word having these letters in common — It's going take to take a long, long time to actually get through (and I may want to extend it lat...
chamber, chimney, compesce, imperch, ipom�ic, lambency, premier cru, recumbence, simnelcake, succumbence, umbeschew, almacle and 631 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 279 more...
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War is god
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Historical Military Terms of Interest
Many (if not all) of these terms were selected from A pocket dictionary, for military officers, containing a definition of all the tactical terms now in use, with other matter belonging to the art ...
zig-zags, yeoman, xerxes, xeiff, xenophon, worm, watch-word, windage, wheeling, wad-hock, wadding, volley and 242 more...
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Military
skunk works, armiger, coistrel, chasseur, bogatyr, vexillum, vivandière, cantiniere, sutler, fantassin, habergeon, cascabel and 65 more...
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Don't Drink The War
Military and martial terms ending in -ade that aren't fizzy drinks.
blockade, switchblade, fusilade, cannonade, ambuscade, parade, camisade, carronade, enfilade, chamade, gasconade, cockade and 8 more...
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chained_bear "a signal made by the beat of a drum, or some other sound, when any matter is to be proposed, such as to bury the dead." (citation in list description) Oct 9, 2008