olivette

[ ol-uh-vet ]

/ ˌɒl əˈvɛt /

a large floodlight having a single bulb.

Also ol·i·vet

[ol-uh-vet, ol-uh-vet] /ˌɒl əˈvɛt, ˈɒl əˌvɛt/.

Origin of olivette

From French; see origin at olive, -ette

On his return to London he created the character of the Duke in "Olivette."

The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 |Various
I knew the "Olivette" was about to pull out, and if he expected to go on her it was high time he was moving.

Danger Signals |John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
The "Olivette," on which the correspondents sailed, was the last boat to leave Port Tampa.

Danger Signals |John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
We were honored next day by a call from an officer of the Olivette, with his assistant.

The Red Cross in Peace and War |Clara Barton

This, that he thought at the time to be an exclusively English invention, was the old Provenal dance of the olivette.

Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) |Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco