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Posted on May 31, 2022

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Answer : TATTOO

tattoo – n
a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters

A military tattoo is a performance of music or display of armed forces in general. The term comes from the early 17th-century Dutch phrase doe den tap toe (“turn off the tap”), a signal sounded by drummers or trumpeters to instruct innkeepers near military garrisons to stop serving beer and for soldiers to return to their barracks and is unrelated to the Tahitian origins of an ink tattoo.

The tattoo was originally a form of military music but the practice has evolved into more elaborate shows involving theatrics and musical performances. It is also used to designate military exhibitions such as the Royal International Air Tattoo.

ETYMOLOGY

“signal calling soldiers or sailors to quarters at night,” 1680s, earlier tap-to (1640s), from Dutch taptoe, from tap “faucet of a cask” (see tap (n.1)) + toe “shut, to,” from Proto-Germanic *to (see to (prep.)). “So called because police formerly visited taverns in the evening to shut off the taps of casks” [Barnhart]. In 17c. Dutch the phrase apparently was used with a transferred or figurative sense “say no more.” In English, transferred sense of “drumbeat” is recorded from 1755. Hence, Devil’s tattoo “action of idly drumming fingers in irritation or impatience” (1803).