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Reveille
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.