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Form of signal formerly used by military
For the French novel by Françoise Sagan, see La chamade. For the car, see Renault 19. For the organ stop, see En chamade. For the perfume, see Guerlain.
In war, a chamade was a certain beat of a drum, or sound of a trumpet, which was addressed to the enemy as a kind of signal, to inform them of some proposition to be made to the commander; either to capitulate, to have leave to bury their dead, make a truce, etc. Gilles Ménage derives the word from the Italian chiamate, from Latin clamare, to call.