A number of pipe bands performing together, commonly after a competition or as part of a military tattoo.

Balanchine was much taken with military tattoos he'd seen in Scotland.

The military tattoo begins at eight p. m. When will you take off?

A military tattoo bought on the eve of the Civil War had long vanished, a dim, human memory.

During the 1960s and 1970s the castle was the setting for a sequence of military tattoos.

After their friends had left, the Chevis's had an early dinner as they wanted to attend the local military tattoo that night.

The Blue Falcons appear throughout the year at a variety of fêtes, carnivals, military tattoos, and fun days.

Before the military tattoo is over, the stage is left empty.

The original meaning of military tattoo was a military drum performance, but subsequently it came to mean army displays more generally.

A military tattoo was originally a drum signal for soldiers' curfew.