vendue

[ ven-doo, -dyoo ]

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noun

vendue

/ ˈvɛndjuː /

Origin of vendue¹

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

Origin of vendue¹

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

In the same year we meet for the first time, vendue masters and public auctions.

When my husband would not pay the war tax, as Friends would not, the vendue master took away these tankards and sold them.

Also in this same year it is named as the place of public vendue of land situated on Broadway.

But I never could, and I never shall, abide the sight of the red and ruthless flag of the vendue-master.

Vendue--no person to sell goods by, unless licensed, those exempt by act of parliament excepted, under the penalty of 50l.

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