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  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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