Vendean
[ven-dee-uh n, vahn-dey-]
- of or relating to the Vendée or its inhabitants.
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- a native or inhabitant of the Vendée, especially one who participated in the royalist revolt in 1793.
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Origin of Vendean
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Examples from the Web for vendean
Historical Examples
I am also a Vendean and, as the cause is now lost, I am making my way down to the sea.
No Surrender!G. A. Henty
My brother-in-law was a Vendean, and has fought through the war.
No Surrender!G. A. Henty
The town and castle were destroyed in 1792 and 1793 during the Vendean wars.
A Vendean priest celebrated the mass standing in blood and upon mutilated corpses.
Charette, the Vendean leader, retaliated by a holocaust of two thousand republican prisoners whom he had taken.
The Life of Napoleon BonaparteWilliam Milligan Sloane