vendue

[ ven-doo, -dyoo ]

/ vɛnˈdu, -ˈdyu /

noun

a public auction.

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Which of the options below is the best punctuation for the sentence? It__s your turn to pick the movie __ but your sister gets to pick the board game we _ re going to play.

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Origin of vendue

1680–90; < Dutch vendu < Middle French vendue sale, noun use of feminine of vendu, past participle of vendre to sell; see vend

Words nearby vendue

vendidad, vending machine, vendition, vendor, vendor placing, vendue, vendée, vendémiaire, vendôme, vene-, venectasia

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Example sentences from the Web for vendue

For the vendue opened, and they began to buy extravagantly, notwithstanding all his cautions, and their own fear of taxes.
One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed|C. A. Bogardus
Vendue--no person to sell goods by, unless licensed, those exempt by act of parliament excepted, under the penalty of 50l.
The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)|David Dickinson Mann
We had her a year, and yet she never got over wanting to go to the vendue.
Around The Tea-Table|T. De Witt Talmage
Things were mostly sold at a vendue, for the two boys were going in the army.
A Little Girl in Old Salem|Amanda Minnie Douglas

To sell them at vendue, is to give them to the bidders of the day, be they many or few.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson

British Dictionary definitions for vendue

vendue

/ (ˈvɛndjuː) /

noun

US a public sale; auction

Word Origin for vendue

C17: from Dutch vendu, from Old French vendue a sale, from vendre to sell, from Latin vendere

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