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• a variation of vedette.

vidette

American  

[vi-det] / vɪˈdɛt /

noun

1. a variant of vedette.

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vidette British  

/ vɪˈdɛt /

noun

1. a variant spelling of vedette

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Example Sentences

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vidette

So they continued along down the side of the mountain, and soon lost sight of the vidette.

From The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners by Herbert Carter

I now noticed a Yankee vidette about twenty-five yards in front, rifle in hand, sticking close to a tree, and scarcely fifty yards farther on, a rebel vidette peered cautiously past another tree.

From In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House by R. E. McBride

The hill being an excellent point for observation, a vidette of our cavalry was posted at that point.

From Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 by John Lockwood

At other times the vidette duty is a matter of easy fulfilment.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Mayne Reid

About four o'clock, Sergeant Hasler woke me up to go on vidette post.

From In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House by R. E. McBride