Vedetteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French vedette.

発音

• IPA^(key): /vəˈdɛt/
• 韻: -ɛt

名詞

vedette (複数形 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.

Further reading

• vedette (sentry) on Wikipedia.
• vedette (cabaret) on Wikipedia.
• Vedette in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• “vedette”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.