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vedette boat

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ve⋅dette

[vi-det]
–noun (formerly)
1. Also called vedette boat. a small naval launch used for scouting.
2. a mounted sentry in advance of the outposts of an army.
Also, vidette.


Origin:
1680–90; < F < It vedetta outlook where a sentinel is posted, alter. of earlier veletta (of debated orig.) by assoc. with vedere to see; see -ette
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vedette 
"mounted sentinel placed in advance of an outpost," 1690, from Fr., from It. vedetta, probably from vedere "to see" (see vista).
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