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"Reveille" (US: / ˈ r ɛ v əl i / REV-əl-ee, UK: / r ɪ ˈ v æ l i / rih-VAL-ee), [1] called in French "Le Réveil" is a bugle call, trumpet call, drum, fife-and-drum or pipes call most often associated with the military; it is chiefly used to wake military personnel at sunrise. The name comes from réveille (or réveil), the French word ...
A réveillon (French: [ʁevɛjɔ̃] ⓘ) is a long dinner held in the evening preceding Christmas Day and New Year's Eve.Its name descends from the word réveil (meaning "waking"), because participation involves staying awake until morning, as the meal finishes.
"The Rouse" was traditionally played following "Reveille", which was a bugle call played in the morning to wake soldiers up. "The Rouse" would be played to get soldiers out of bed. The use of both "Last Post" and "The Rouse" at cenotaph ceremonies in Commonwealth nations essentially turns the two-minute silence into a ritualized night vigil.
"The Reveille", a song for male voice chorus composed in 1907 by Edward Elgar to words by Bret Harte Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Reveille .
The Franco-Swiss Réveil was contemporary and analogous to the German Erweckungsbewegung and shared the social concern of its leaders like J. F. Oberlin.A preacher influenced by the Réveil was the German-speaking Swiss minister Samuel Heinrich Froehlich founder of the Neutäufer in Europe and the Apostolic Christian Church in the United States.
For ceremonial use, the "Last Post" is often followed by "The Rouse", or less frequently the longer "Reveille". [2] [3] The two regimental traditions have separate music for the call. [4] While the B♭ infantry bugle version is better known, the E♭ cavalry trumpet version is used by the state trumpeters of the Household Cavalry.
At a U.S. military installation it is a pre-reveille "courtesy" signal, sounded around 05:50, originally to assemble the trumpeters to deliver the reveille that would be forthcoming at 06:00. Some locations also sound it a few minutes before "Retreat" (lowering the flag at the end of the day).
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.