camisado
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish encamisado (“shirted”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]camisado (plural camisados or camisadoes)
- (archaic) A nocturnal ambush or surprising act of aggression.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC:
- the English doubting least the Scots minded to give them a camisado that night
- (obsolete) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.
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