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Definition of Camisade
1. n. A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.
Definition of Camisade
1. camisado [n -S] - See also: camisado
Lexicographical Neighbors of Camisade
Literary usage of Camisade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the House of Douglas from the Earliest Times Down to the by Herbert Maxwell (1902)
"59 Douglas's camisade, August 1327. 60 Treaty of Peace, 1328. 61 Death of Robert
I., 7th June 1329- 62 Expedition with the Heart of Bruce, 1330. ..."
2. Participial substantives of the -ata type in the Romance languages: with by Luther Herbert Alexander, ( (1912)
"Allez vous en a un assaut de ville, armé de ces brevets, ou des dites chemises
tant seulement et vous verrez si ceste camisade et ..."
3. Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle (1896)
"camisade is a night attack, when the assailants wear shirts over their uniforms
in order to prevent confusion. In the battle of Hochkirch, General Daun sur- ..."
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