单词 | camisado |
释义 | camisadon. Military. Obsolete or archaic. 1. a. 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 centuries.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > night-attack waking1525 camisado1548 camisade1560 canvasado1605 night attack1763 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. C.iiij Of whome in a camisado..his lorde-ship killed aboue viii. C. 1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta ii. ii, in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig.Piiv By night I will the Camuassado giue. 1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 10 The French came forth, at midnight..As though they would, a Canuozado make. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xii. 672 Ranso de Cero..gaue them a Camuesado in their lodging. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. 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. 1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 83 Not dreaming of such a Camisado. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 112 The Garrison..gave us several Camisadoes. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. xiii. 567 Prince Karl..has been on march all night, intending a night-attack or camisado. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare i. 6 How be it (gentle reader) be of good cheare. Al this is but a camisado: These be but visardes: they be no faces. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 111 Some for engaging to suppress, The Camisado of Surplices..More proper for the Cloudy Night, Of Popery, than Gospel-Light. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. vii. 244 A camisado, or shirt-tumult, every where. 2. The shirt worn over the armour in a night attack. ΚΠ 1618 R. Williams Actions Lowe Countries 82 (T.) Some two thousand of our best men, all in camisadoes with scaling ladders. 1618 R. Williams Actions Lowe Countries 83 (T.) Their armours and camisadoes: I mean the shirts that covered their armours. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1548 |
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