olivette

[ ol-uh-vet ]

nounTheater.
  1. a large floodlight having a single bulb.

Origin of olivette

1
From French; see origin at olive, -ette
  • Also ol·i·vet [ol-uh-vet, ol-uh-vet]. /ˌɒl əˈvɛt, ˈɒl əˌvɛt/.

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How to use olivette in a sentence

  • This, that he thought at the time to be an exclusively English invention, was the old Provenal dance of the olivette.

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  • Valentine seizes his opportunity, passes himself off as the Captain, and marries olivette at the request of the Countess herself.

  • She is at the house of the Seneschal, and is surprised there by Valentine, who has climbed her balcony expecting to find olivette.

  • Both uncle and nephew then renounce olivette until the Countess returns and an explanation is made.

  • We were honored next day by a call from an officer of the olivette, with his assistant.