chamade

/shuh-mahd/US // ʃəˈmɑd //UK // (ʃəˈmɑːd) //

辣椒,辣椒酱,辣椒素,辣椒水

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Military Archaic.
- : a signal by drum or trumpet inviting an enemy to a parley.

A white flag waved on the rampart, and the drums of the garrison beat the chamade.
Upon which Harsch, next morning, has to beat the chamade, and surrender Prisoner of War.
He asked me, "Don't you know the rules of war, then; that you fire after chamade is beaten?"
I answered in my heat, "I knew of no chamade; what poltroonery or what treachery had been going on, I knew not!"
He had gone through all his money, and had now only the farm of La Chamade left.