camisado

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/ˌkæmɪˈseɪdəʊ/

noun

A nocturnal ambush or surprising act of aggression.

OriginSpanish encamisado →
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Meanings

nouncamisado (plural camisados or camisadoes)

plural camisados · plural camisadoes · alternative camisade

  1. archaicA nocturnal ambush or surprising act of aggression.

    the English doubting least the Scots minded to give them a camisado that night

    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
  2. obsoleteA shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.

Origin

  1. Spanishencamisado
  2. Spanishencamisado
  3. Englishcamisado

Borrowed from Spanish encamisado (“shirted”).

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