"qui vive" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Qui Vive:",
          "text": "\"QUI vive!\" The sentry's musket rings,\nThe channelled bayonet gleams;\nHigh o'er him, like a raven's wings\nThe broad tri-colored banner flings\n\"QUI vive!\" The sentry's musket rings,. The channelled bayonet #:gleams; ... \"Qui vive!\" How oft the midnight air. That startling cry has borne! ...",
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          "ref": "1917, Grace Ellery Channing, The Flags of France:",
          "text": "Qui vive? Who passes by up there?\nWho moves -- what stirs in the startled air?\nWhat whispers, thrills, exults up there?\nQui vive?",
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          "ref": "1920, J[ohn] O[tway] P[ercy] Bland, “[Exhibit G.] Three Palaces.”, in Administration of Immigration Laws: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization: United States House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session: […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Publishing Office, →OCLC, page 373:",
          "text": "The political influence wielded by many of the court ladies, and especially by the first lady-in-waiting (mother of the present Emperor), bears a certain resemblance to that which the eunuchs wielded under the later Manchus at the court of Peking. [...] And behind the 30 ladies-in-waiting there are the rank and file of female palace attendants, some 300, all of Kyoto stock—quite sufficient to keep any conscientious chamberlain on the qui vive.",
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          "ref": "1994, Jack Miles, Arguing Immigration:",
          "text": "Were a tall black man to do the same, there is not one of us who would not immediately be on the qui vive. My sadness about the American estrangement just mentioned doesn't make me act any differently at such a moment,",
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        "a state of heightened vigilance, especially prior to battle"
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