vidette

• As they forced their horses over it, I discovered my friend, the "vidette" among them, who cried out as he saw me "_That is General Wilson, kill him?" —  The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
• It was a vidette, who had fired and run in Do you think they are any of our people That 'ar's one of our kump'ny, Cap'n; I seed the green on his cap," said Lincoln I galloped to the front. —  The Rifle Rangers
• He also added, that lest any of the O'Briens or their retainers should surprise him and Una, he had made up his mind to accompany him, and act as a vidette during their interview Connor felt this devotion of Bartle to his dearest interests, as every grateful and generous heart would Bartle," said he, "when we are married, if it's ever in my power to make you aisy in life, may I never prosper if I don't do it! —  Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
• There she fell in, at the Porte St. Denise, with a company of soldiers, placed there for a time as a vidette, for the Protestants had assumed a dangerous attitude. —  Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
• The vidette is on the corner, and we do not need you We came away filled with wonder, but we did not for some time realize the danger. —  Half a Century

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