/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Camisarde
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or Camisaʹdo. A night attack; so called because the attacking party wore a camise or peasant’s smock over their armour, both to conceal it, and that they might the better recognise each other in the dark.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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