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vidette

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vi·dette  (v-dt)
n.
Variant of vedette.
vidette [vɪˈdɛt]
n
(Military) a variant spelling of vedette
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If D'Artagnan had wished to place himself as a vidette for an expedition, he could not have succeeded better.
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Passing the infantry pickets, the detachment soon afterward approached two cavalry videttes staring hard into the darkness ahead.
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The investigator will encounter nothing less than a line of battle; there is no need of pickets, videttes, skirmishers, to give warning of our approach; our attacking lines will be visible, conspicuous, exposed to an artillery fire that will shave the ground the moment they break from cover, and for half the distance to a sheet of rifle bullets in which nothing can live.
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