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A mounted sentinel
Answer for the clue "A mounted sentinel ", 7 letters:
vedette
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Vedette is the second b-side album by Argentine rock group Babasónicos . It contains tracks that didn't make the cut for Dopádromo and Babasónica .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mounted sentinel placed in advance of an outpost," 1680s, from French vedette (16c.), from Italian (Florentine) vedetta "watch tower, peep hole," probably from vedere "to see," from Latin videre "to see" (see vision ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger. 2 (rfdef: English)
Usage examples of vedette.
Bagshot, as, disorganised by the vedettes riding through their flank into the zeriba, the Bengalese wavered.
Bagshot, as, disorganised by the vedettes riding through their flank into the zeriba, the Bengalese wavered.