vidette
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Given half an hour, and we ought to have left the vidette handsomely in the lurch.”
From Jack Winters' Campmates by Overton, Mark
The six men were divided in pairs, and each pair stood guard by the fluttering flag as vidette for two hours and then rested four, throughout the day and night.
From Campaign of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry April 25-November 11, 1898 by Cooper, James Fenimore
I do not wish to confound these Johnsons with one of the same name, who lived on the Washington road, near our vidette post.
From In and Out of Rebel Prisons by Lieut. A.
"A vidette from Rocky Mount," answered the horseman.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton
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 Carter, Herbert
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