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vedette
[ vi-det ]
noun
- Also called vedette boat. a small naval launch used for scouting.
- a mounted sentry in advance of the outposts of an army.
vedette
/ vɪˈdɛt /
noun
- Also calledvedette boat navy a small patrol vessel
- Also calledvidette military a mounted sentry posted forward of a formation's position
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Origin of vedette1
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Example Sentences
Before nightfall we had no vedettes, for we overlooked the river, and every man was a vedette, as it were.
How they crept up close to the fort and captured a vedette within two gun-shots of the gate.
A vedette of cavalrymen acted as observers, defying fatigue, while patrol after patrol came through the fields of wheat and rye.
The sergeant halted within a few paces of the vedette, while I received instructions.
I asked Allen to go back and leave his piece at the picket-line; while he was gone I spoke in whispers to the vedette.
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