camisado

[ kam-uh-sey-doh, -sah- ]

noun

, Archaic.

, plural cam·i·sa·dos.

1. a military attack made at night.

camisado

/ ˌkæmɪˈseɪd; ˌkæmɪˈsɑːdəʊ /

noun

1. (formerly) an attack made under cover of darkness

Word History and Origins

Origin of camisado¹

1540–50; < Spanish camisada (now obsolete), equivalent to camis ( a ) shirt ( chemise ) + -ada -ade ¹; so called because participants in such attacks would wear shirts over their armor to aid in recognition

Word History and Origins

Origin of camisado¹

C16: from obsolete Spanish camisada, literally: an attack in one's shirt (worn over the armour as identification), from camisa shirt

Example Sentences

Hannibal Buress stopped in Wilmington, Del last week on his Comedy Camisado tour, where he encountered a belligerent, show-stealing heckler.

From Salon

Only briefly exploring the fallout of the Cosby controversy may be something of a missed opportunity, but it’s understandable that he skillfully sticks to safer ground in his new show, his first theater tour, called “The Comedy Camisado.”

From New York Times

This weekend he brings his national “Comedy Camisado” tour to his home borough, Brooklyn.

From New York Times

For being threatned in his Princes Court, whether al the well trayned crew of eche science and profession, dyd make repayre, beyng menaced by Venus’ band, which not onely summoned hir fort and gaue hir a camisado by thick Al’ Armes, but also forced the place by fierce assault, she lyke a couragious and politike captayne, gaue those braue and lusty Souldiers, a fowle repulse, and in end taking them captiues, vrged them for their victuals to fall to woman’s toyle, more shamefull than shamelesse Sardanapalus amid hys amorous troupe.

From Project Gutenberg

Harte's History of Gustavus, a wilderness which mere human patience seems unable to explore, is yet enlivened here and there with a cheerful spot, when he tells us of some scalade or camisado, or speculates on troopers rendered bullet-proof by art-magic.

From Project Gutenberg