The Devil's Dictionary: Reveille
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
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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