estafette

/es-tuh-fet/US // ˌɛs təˈfɛt //

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n.名词 noun

An estafette came with an order to evacuate the plateau, and to save the artillery.
An estafette, a gendarme, arrived with a telegram; the usher signed a receipt for it.
At that moment Dulac entered the room with a packet of letters just arrived from Paris by estafette.
Estafette, we believe, is the proper term, but the military couriers of that period were always called videttes by the citizens.