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-- The origin of this word appears to be the Italian cry, _all'arme; gridare all'arme_ is to give the alarm.
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_ -- It is in favour of the derivation _à l'arme_ that the Italian is _allarme_; some dictionaries even have _dare all'arme_, with the apostrophe, for to give alarm.
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Skeat gives the original of the term as 'all'arme' (Ital.) a war cry of the time of the Crusades.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Alarm - from all'arme, which was a call to take up arms against an invader
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Alarm - from all'arme, which was a call to take up arms against an invader
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Alarm - from all'arme, which was a call to take up arms against an invader
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Alarm - from all'arme, which was a call to take up arms against an invader
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Alarm - from all'arme, which was a call to take up arms against an invader
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Alarm - from all'arme, which was a call to take up arms against an invader
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Alarm - from all'arme, which was a call to take up arms against an invader
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