vidette
Americannoun
noun
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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 Mark Overton
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
"What an excellent vidette you would make, Miss Torrington," said the young man, laughing.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope
On the road towards Winchester, there was one that was particularly dangerous to the unfortunate vidette.
From The history of Company C, Seventh Regiment, O.V.I by Theodore Wilder
Presently Mr. Curran, established as vidette, descried a well-known horseman, who pulled up sharply in the road, and dismounting, vaulted lightly over the wall.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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