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camisade

camisade is the alternative form of camisado.

Meaning of camisado

Noun

camisado (plural camisados or camisadoes)

  1. (archaic) A nocturnal ambush or surprising act of aggression.
    • the English doubting least the Scots minded to give them a camisado that night1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.

Forms of camisade

pluralcamisades

Origin of camisade

French camisade (“a night attack”).

Questions about camisade

What is camisade the alternative form of?
Camisade is the alternative form of camisado.

Words near camisade in the dictionary

  1. Camires
  2. camis
  3. camisa
  4. camisa de chino
  5. camisa de chinos
  6. camisade
  7. camisades
  8. camisado
  9. camisadoes
  10. camisados
  11. camisae

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