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reveille
(encz) | reveille,vojenský budíček Zdeněk Brož |
Reveille
(gcide) | Reveille \Re*veil"le\, n. [F. r['e]veil, fr. r['e]veiller to
awake; pref. re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to awake,
watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob. taken
by mistake from the French imper. r['e]veillez,2d pers. pl.
See Vigil.] (Mil.)
The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give
notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the
sentinels to forbear challenging. "Sound a reveille."
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
For at dawning to assail ye
Here no bugles sound reveille. --Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster] |
reveille
(wn) | reveille
n 1: (military) signal to wake up [syn: reveille, {wake-up
signal}]
2: a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a
bugle call at sunrise |
reveille
(devil) | REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields
no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted. In the
American army it is ingeniously called "rev-e-lee," and to that
pronunciation our countrymen have pledged their lives, their
misfortunes and their sacred dishonor.
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reveille
(encz) | reveille,vojenský budíček Zdeněk Brož |
reveille
(wn) | reveille
n 1: (military) signal to wake up [syn: reveille, {wake-up
signal}]
2: a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a
bugle call at sunrise |
reveille
(devil) | REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields
no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted. In the
American army it is ingeniously called "rev-e-lee," and to that
pronunciation our countrymen have pledged their lives, their
misfortunes and their sacred dishonor.
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