1. Originally the main theatrical performer on a musical, very like a prima donna, yet a vedette knew how to sing, dance and perform in any non-plasticart.
2. It was derived then to the Ladies who singed and Danced at the Foiles-Vergére at las Vegas or Moulin Rouge.
3. In slang, any person that will do ANYTHING to get everyone pay her attention.
1. The Ladies from Chicago were wonderful vedettes.
2. I went to the Moulin Rouge, OMG! the vedettes were freakin hot.
3. Mary is such a vedette, she did a flash in the classroom just to get noticed.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2million.