vendue
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
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
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That afternoon, with the stained-glass reflections of autumn colors blazing through my window, I pored over an 1832 vendue contract auctioning the care of three female paupers to the lowest bidder in Sandown, N.H.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
For the vendue opened, and they began to buy extravagantly, notwithstanding all his cautions, and their own fear of taxes.
From One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus
Dr. Johnson, at the brewer's vendue, could not have been more learnedly sonorous.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
July 7th, 1757. 409-1 A vendue is an auction. 409-2 Very few of the proverbs which Franklin made use of in his almanacs were original with him.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
When my husband would not pay the war tax, as Friends would not, the vendue master took away these tankards and sold them.
From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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