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Camisado   Listen
noun
Camisado, Camisade  n.  (Obs.) (Mil.)
(a)
A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.
(b)
An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. "Give them a camisado in night season."






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... night attack on horseback, wherein the attacking party put their shirts on over their armour, in order to recognise each other in the darkness. Charles II. attempted a Camisado at Worcester, which did not succeed, owing ...
— A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco • King James I.



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