Vendean
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Vendean
1790–1800; Vendée ( def. ) + -an
Example Sentences
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Get up, my good fellow," Cathelineau said; "I am but a Vendean peasant, like yourself.
From No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by Wood, Stanley L.
Some of the Vendean leaders persevered in resistance until May, and even after their submission the peace was ill observed, for the Royalists hearkened to the solicitations of the princes and their advisers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
Footnote 17: The Emperor considered this rigorous measure as a just reprisal for the means employed by the Vendean chiefs, to recruit their army.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
His father, the son of a Vendean fisherman, after working his way up to the command of a French man-of-war, purchased a plantation in Louisiana, which at that time belonged to France.
From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
It is not even a Vendean town, as many suppose, though it was the seat of a thirteenth-century bishopric, which in the time of Louis Quatorze was transferred to La Rochelle.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
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