# vedette
## English
### Alternative forms

* vidette

### Etymology

From French vedette.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vəˈdɛt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Noun

vedette (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: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

* 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
### Etymology

From French vedette.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vəˈdɛtə/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

vedette c (plural vedettes or vedetten, diminutive vedettetje n)
* celebrity, star
    Synonyms: ster, beroemdheid, beroemde

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian vedetta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /və.dɛt/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

vedette 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

* voler la vedette

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* “vedette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology 1

From French vedette, from Italian vedetta.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /veˈdɛt/
* Rhymes: -ɛt

#### Noun

vedette f (invariable)
* star (celebrity)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /veˈdet.te/
* Rhymes: -ette
* Hyphenation: ve‧dét‧te

#### Noun

vedette f
* plural of vedetta

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /veˈdet.te/, (traditional) /veˈdɛt.te/
* Rhymes: -ette, (traditional) -ɛtte
* Hyphenation: ve‧dét‧te, (traditional) ve‧dèt‧te

#### Verb

vedette
* (archaic or colloquial) third-person singular past historic of vedere

### References

* 1 2 vedette in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Spanish
### Noun

vedette f (plural vedettes)
* Alternative spelling of vedete

### Further reading

* “vedette”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014