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vendee

1 American  
[ven-dee] / vɛnˈdi /

noun

Chiefly Law.

  1. the person to whom a thing is sold.

Vendée 2 American  
[vahn-dey] / vɑ̃ˈdeɪ /

noun

  1. a department in W France, on the Atlantic: royalist revolt 1793–95. 2,709 sq. mi. (7,015 sq. km). La Roche-sur-Yon.

Vendée 1 British  
/ vɑ̃de /

noun

  1. a department of W France, in Pays-de-la-Loire region: scene of the Wars of the Vendée, a series of peasant-royalist insurrections (1793–95) against the Revolutionary government. Capital: La Roche-sur-Yon. Pop: 565 230 (2003 est). Area: 7016 sq km (2709 sq miles)

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vendee 2 British  
/ vɛnˈdiː /

noun

  1. law a person to whom something, esp real property, is sold; buyer

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Etymology

Origin of vendee

First recorded in 1540–50; vend + -ee

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

As a rule, they were paid only by the vendee, and to the market clerk, whose record of the payment was an attestation to the genuineness of the purchase.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

The vendee or purchaser would sue to recover for a broken covenant.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney

Now I suppose you wouldn’t have thought that I was a vendee, would you?”

From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by Fenn, George Manville

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 Roget, Peter Mark

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