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camisado

/ˌkæmɪˈseɪdəʊ/

camisado noun: a nocturnal ambush or surprising act of aggression.

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.

camisado meaning in Tamil

camisado in Tamil

படை இரவுத் தாக்கு

Forms of camisado

pluralcamisados
pluralcamisadoes
alternative formcamisade

Origin of camisado

Borrowed from Spanish encamisado (“shirted”).

Questions about camisado

What does camisado mean?
Camisado means a nocturnal ambush or surprising act of aggression.
What is camisado in Tamil?
Camisado in Tamil is படை இரவுத் தாக்கு. See Camisado meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is camisado?
Camisado is a noun.
How do you pronounce camisado?
Camisado is pronounced /ˌkæmɪˈseɪdəʊ/.
What is the plural of camisado?
The plural of camisado is camisados.

Words near camisado in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: camisado (page history and authors); camisado (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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