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estafette
[ es-tuh-fet ]
noun
- a mounted courier.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of estafette1
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Example Sentences
An estafette came with an order to evacuate the plateau, and to save the artillery.
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An estafette, a gendarme, arrived with a telegram; the usher signed a receipt for it.
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At that moment Dulac entered the room with a packet of letters just arrived from Paris by estafette.
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Estafette, we believe, is the proper term, but the military couriers of that period were always called videttes by the citizens.
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