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

They listened anxiously for shots, and felt certain the vidette could not reach Mr Daveney’s people in time, if attacked, never thinking of their own critical position in such a case.

From Jasper Lyle by Ward, Harriet

Only the click of that wooden latch, and a gliding figure, like a stealthy vidette, squeezing in among the common mass, indicated the late comer.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

A vidette was still kept upon the top of the ridge, though not the man first deputed for the performance of this duty.

From The Yellow Chief by Reid, Mayne

The cavalry vidette reported that the rebels could be heard moving about all night.

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 Lockwood, John

It was very cold work, standing vidette two hours at a time; in fact, my toes were slightly frosted the first night.

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