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Charade vs Chamade - What's the difference?

charade | chamade |

As nouns the difference between charade and chamade

is that charade is a specific kind of riddle in which a word or phrase to find is split in several parts that can each be guessed from a verbal clue while chamade is a signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley.

charade

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A specific kind of riddle in which a word or phrase to find is split in several parts that can each be guessed from a verbal clue.
  • (in plural) A party game in which players mime a word, phrase, or name that the other players must try to guess.
  • Something apparently real but based on pretence/pretense.
    • She said she loved me but it was only a charade .

    See also

    * See also * sham

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    chamade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military, historical) A signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley.
  • * 1762 , Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , volume 6 (Penguin 2003), page 402:
    • But when the chamade was beat, and the corporal helped my uncle up it, and followed with the colours in his hand, to fix them upon the ramparts.

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