vendee
noun
the person to whom a thing is sold.
vendee
1 American
[ven-dee]
/ vɛnˈdi /
noun
Chiefly Law.
Vendée
2
American
[vahn -dey]
/ vɑ̃ˈdeɪ /
noun
Vendée
1
British
/ vɑ̃de /
noun
vendee
2
British
/ vɛnˈdiː /
noun
Etymology
Origin of vendee
Example Sentences
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A valuable privilege under which an unpaid consigner or broker may stop or countermand his goods upon their passage to the consignee on the insolvency of the vendee.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
His position is thus that of a surety who is liable to his principal should the vendee make default.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
Purchase -- N. purchase, emption†; buying, purchasing, shopping; preemption, refusal. coemption†, bribery; slave trade. buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee; patron, employer, client, customer, clientele.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Neither venders nor vendee grieved at the result.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
The vendee or purchaser would sue to recover for a broken covenant.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
"It's the Vendée Globe race - it's the toughest sailing race in the world."
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
It will be skippered by French navigator Armel Le Cléac’h, winner of the solo around-the-world race Vendée Globe in 2017.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
In March, Christian Drouin, a French farmer in the Vendée, discovered that his chickens were dying of avian influenza.
From Science Magazine ● May 11, 2022
Yannick Le Goater, a prosecutor in Vendée, said at a news conference that terrorism was not a factor in the killing.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
But the pet little joke was in La Vendée.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
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