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Camisade

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Camisade
    (Mil) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack. "Give them a camisado in night season."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) camisade
    An attack by surprise at night or at break of day: probably so called because made by soldiers wearing shirts over their armor, in order that they might be recognized by their friends in the dark.
  2. (n) camisade
    A shirt worn by soldiers over their armor in a night attack to enable them to recognize one another.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Camisade
    kam-i-sād′ a night attack, probably because shirts were often put on over the armour
  2. Camisade
    Also Camisad′o
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. camisade, a night attack; cf. It. camiciata,. See Camis

Usage in literature

I thought there had been a camisade. "The White Company" by Arthur Conan Doyle

There should be sport of every kind; the youths in white arrayed Were, to the ladies all unknown, to lead the camisade. "Moorish Literature" by Anonymous