vedette
English
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editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /vəˈdɛt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
editvedette (plural vedettes)
- (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.
- (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.
Further reading
edit- vedette (sentry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- vedette (cabaret) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Vedette in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- “vedette”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch
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editNoun
editvedette c (plural vedettes or vedetten, diminutive vedettetje n)
- celebrity, star
- Synonyms: ster, beroemdheid, beroemde
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian vedetta.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvedette f (plural vedettes)
- (slightly dated) star (celebrity)
- Les plus grandes vedettes étaient présentes lors de cet évènement.
- The biggest stars were present at this event.
- (nautical) flagship
- (lexicography) headword (word used as the title of a section)
- (military, historical) vedette (sentry)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Dutch: vedette
- → English: vedette
- → Italian: vedette
- → Polish: wedeta
- → Portuguese: vedeta
- → Romanian: vedetă
- → Spanish: vedete
Further reading
edit- “vedette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology 1
editFrom French vedette, from Italian vedetta.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvedette f (invariable)
- star (celebrity)
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvedette f
Etymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /veˈdet.te/, (traditional) /veˈdɛt.te/[1]
- Rhymes: -ette, (traditional) -ɛtte
- Hyphenation: ve‧dét‧te, (traditional) ve‧dèt‧te
Verb
editvedette
- (archaic or colloquial) third-person singular past historic of vedere
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 vedette in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Spanish
editNoun
editvedette f (plural vedettes)
- Alternative spelling of vedete
Further reading
edit- “vedette”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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