Brewer's: Reveille

[re-vay'-ya]. The beat of drum at daybreak to warn the sentries that they may forbear from challenging, as the troops are awake. (French, réveiller, to awake.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Revenons a nos Moutons
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