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reveille |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille. --Sir W. Scott. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: reveille n 1: (military) signal to wake up [syn: {wake-up signal}] 2: a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: 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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