vidette

How to use vidette in a sentence

• We had two companies of the Thirty-first Massachusetts mounted infantry, who were used for for vidette duty.

  Reminiscences of two years with the colored troops | Joshua M. Addeman

• There was occasional firing by the outer picket, or cavalry vidette, during the night.

  History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861 | Charles H. Clarke

• Though there was no chance that the vidette would hear them, his very presence had the effect of quieting them.

  The Belgians to the Front | Colonel James Fiske

• "What an excellent vidette you would make, Miss Torrington," said the young man, laughing.

  The Vicar of Wrexhill | Mrs [Frances] Trollope

• I do not wish to confound these Johnsons with one of the same name, who lived on the Washington road, near our vidette post.

  In and Out of Rebel Prisons | Lieut. A. [Alonzo] Cooper