vedette

/vi-det/US // vɪˈdɛt //UK // (vɪˈdɛt) //

薇迪特,薇黛特,薇德特,薇德

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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History/Historical.
- : Also called vedette boat . a small naval launch used for scouting.
- : a mounted sentry in advance of the outposts of an army.

Before nightfall we had no vedettes, for we overlooked the river, and every man was a vedette, as it were.
How they crept up close to the fort and captured a vedette within two gun-shots of the gate.
A vedette of cavalrymen acted as observers, defying fatigue, while patrol after patrol came through the fields of wheat and rye.
The sergeant halted within a few paces of the vedette, while I received instructions.
I asked Allen to go back and leave his piece at the picket-line; while he was gone I spoke in whispers to the vedette.