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What does estafette mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) A dispatch rider, especially military; a mounted courier.
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At that moment Dulac entered the room with a packet of letters just arrived from Paris by estafette.
A mounted estafette stopped them on the railway line, telling them to return to Puits-Perdu.
While en route, Charles Todd commissioned him to act as estafette between the construction parties of the Overland Telegraph Line.
During WW2, my father, who was an estafette in the 1st Lancers Rgt, was taken prisoner in the area of Spa and spent 3 years and a half at the StaLag ll C at Stettin, Poland.
An estafette came with an order to evacuate the plateau, and to save the artillery.

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