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
Example Sentences
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En 2019, une copie qu’il avait produite de son oeuvre Astro Boy mosaic, installée plusieurs années auparavant contre un pont de Tokyo, s’est vendue aux enchères pour 1,12 millions de dollars.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023
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
So now the sheriff is going to have a vendue an’ see if he kin satisfy Jud Spink’s claim in full.
From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Marlowe, Amy Bell
“Well–maybe,” grunted Harris. 247But Lyddy remembered that Harris had already told her that he proposed to go to the vendue and buy in several pieces of the widow’s furniture.
From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Marlowe, Amy Bell
I observed wretched devils playing here, whose whole standing kit would not have brought a picaroon at vendue.
From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Power, Tyrone
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