Vendean

[ ven-dee-uhn, vahn-dey- ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the Vendée or its inhabitants.

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of the Vendée, especially one who participated in the royalist revolt in 1793.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vendean¹

1790–1800; Vendée ( def ) + -an

Example Sentences

Reckoning it with Dunkirk and the Vendean expedition, the government had to confess to three failures in the year.

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An insurrection which began in the Vendean district of Anjou grew to a formidable height.

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That was the stronghold of the grand army, which included all that was best in Vendean virtue.

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One Vendean, surrounded and summoned to give up his arms, cried: "First give me back my God."

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The town was the site of a terrific conflict in the Vendean wars, and was well-nigh destroyed, and its inhabitants were massacred.

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