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From French vedette.

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vedette (plural vedettes)

  1. (historical, military) A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger.
    • 1815 June 19, Arthur Wellesley, Wellingon's Waterloo dispatch to Lord Bathurst:
      The enemy made no effort to pursue Marshal Blücher. On the contrary, a patrole which I sent to Sombref in the morning found all quiet; and the enemy's vedettes fell back as the patrole advanced.
    • 2021 February 16, Dan Richards, “Peak cabin: a fire-spotter's lonely vantage point in Washington state”, in The Guardian[1]:
      My goal was Desolation Peak, the cabin where rookie vedette Jack Kerouac spent 63 eventful days in the summer of 1956.
  2. (entertainment) A cabaret performer, usually the main female artist of a show.
    • 2005, Coco Fusco, Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, Routledge, →ISBN, page 44:
      Josephine Baker arrived in Cuba in 1951. When this famous black American vedette arrived—she who had first enraptured Paris and later the rest of Europe—Rita Montaner played a trick on her. La Baker, as well as Cuban vedettes and rumba dancers, had conquered Europe by selling exoticism to an avid European public.

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From French vedette.

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vedette c (plural vedettes or vedetten, diminutive vedettetje n)

  1. celebrity, star
    Synonyms: ster, beroemdheid, beroemde

French

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Borrowed from Italian vedetta.

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vedette f (plural vedettes)

  1. (slightly dated) star (celebrity)
    Les plus grandes vedettes étaient présentes lors de cet évènement.
    The biggest stars were present at this event.
  2. (nautical) flagship
  3. (lexicography) headword (word used as the title of a section)
  4. (military, historical) vedette (sentry)

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  • Dutch: vedette
  • English: vedette
  • Italian: vedette
  • Polish: wedeta
  • Portuguese: vedeta
  • Romanian: vedetă
  • Spanish: vedete

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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From French vedette, from Italian vedetta.

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vedette f (invariable)

  1. star (celebrity)

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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  • IPA(key): /veˈdet.te/
  • Rhymes: -ette
  • Hyphenation: ve‧dét‧te

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vedette f

  1. plural of vedetta

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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  • IPA(key): /veˈdet.te/, (traditional) /veˈdɛt.te/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ette, (traditional) -ɛtte
  • Hyphenation: ve‧dét‧te, (traditional) ve‧dèt‧te

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vedette

  1. (archaic or colloquial) third-person singular past historic of vedere

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  1. 1.0 1.1 vedette in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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vedette f (plural vedettes)

  1. Alternative spelling of vedete

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