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• vendee
  vendee

  noun

  the person to whom a thing is sold.
• Vendée
  Vendée

  noun

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

vendee

¹ American  

[ven-dee] / vɛnˈdi /

noun

Chiefly Law.

1. the person to whom a thing is sold.

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Vendée ² American  

[vahn-day] / 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.

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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

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Example Sentences

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vendee Vendée

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 George Manville Fenn

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

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

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

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

A western region of France, the Vendée, had been the site of the largest royalist insurrection against the Revolution in early 1793, featuring a rebel army of conservative peasants.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

Yachtsman who survived four days in an air pocket under the overturned hull of his boat, following a storm during the non-stop Vendée Globe solo round-the-world race.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2018

Pitt had allowed La Vendée to go down in defeat and slaughter, but at last he made up his mind to help, and it was done on a magnificent scale.

From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis

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