Camisardeor Camisado. 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. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Camisarde from Infoplease:
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