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ˌcamiˈsado Mil. Obs. or arch.
Also 6 cammassado, camnesado, camisada, 7 camizado, 8 camiscado.
[ad. Sp. camiƈada, camisada, f. camisa shirt: lit. ‘an attack in one's shirt’: see camis, chemise, and -ado; also canvasado.]
1. A night attack; originally one in which the attacking party wore shirts over their armour as a means of mutual recognition. (A very common word in 16–17th c.)
1548W. Patten Exped. Scotl. in Arb. Garner III. 89 Of whom, in a camisado..his Lordship killed above eight hundred. 1566Gascoigne Jocasta Wks. 91 By night I wil the cammassado give. 1575Churchyard Chippes (1817) 110 The French came forth, at midnight..As though they would a camisado make. 1579Fenton Guicciard. xii. (1599) 554 Ranse de Cere..gaue them a Camnesado in their lodging. 1598Barret Theor. Warres Gloss. 249 Camisada, a Spanish word, and doth signifie the inuesting or putting on of a shirt ouer the souldiers apparell or armour; the which is vsed in the night time, when any suddaine exploit..is to be put in practise vpon the enemy. 1663Flagellum or O. Cromwell (1672) 83 Not dreaming of such a Camisado. 1721De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 106 The garrison..gave us several camisadoes. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. V. xiii. xiii. 125 Prince Karl..has been on march all night, intending a night-attack or camisado.
b. fig.
1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 5 Howbeit (gentle Reader) be of good cheere. All this is but a camisado: These be but visards: they bee no faces. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 296 Some for engaging to suppress The Camisado of Surplices..More proper for the cloudy Night Of Popery, than Gospel-Light. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iv. vii. 216 A camisado, or shirt-tumult, every where.
2. (erron.) The shirt worn over the armour in a night attack.
1618Sir R. Williams Actions Lowe Countr. 82 (T.) Some two thousand of our best men, all in camisadoes with scaling ladders. Ibid. 83 Their armours and camisadoes: I mean the shirts that covered their armours. |