vedette / vɪˈdɛt /

⚽高中词汇薇迪特薇黛特薇德特薇德

vedette 的定义

n. 名词 noun

History/Historical.

  1. Also called vedette boat . a small naval launch used for scouting.
  2. a mounted sentry in advance of the outposts of an army.

更多vedette例句

  1. Before nightfall we had no vedettes, for we overlooked the river, and every man was a vedette, as it were.
  2. How they crept up close to the fort and captured a vedette within two gun-shots of the gate.
  3. A vedette of cavalrymen acted as observers, defying fatigue, while patrol after patrol came through the fields of wheat and rye.
  4. The sergeant halted within a few paces of the vedette, while I received instructions.
  5. 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.