vendee
noun
the person to whom a thing is sold.
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[ven-dee]
/ vɛnˈdi /
noun
Chiefly Law.
Vendée
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[vahn -day]
/ vɑ̃ˈdeɪ /
noun
Vendée
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British
/ vɑ̃de /
noun
vendee
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/ vɛnˈdiː /
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Etymology
Origin of vendee
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The Roman Mancipation required the presence first of all of the parties, the vendor and vendee, or we should perhaps rather say, if we are to use modern legal language, the grantor and grantee.
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
As a rule, they were paid only by the vendee, and to the market clerk, whose record of the payment was an attestation to the genuineness of the purchase.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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
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
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
About 200 sailors have taken part in the Vendée Globe over the years, but only 114 have actually managed to cross the finish line due to the extreme conditions.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
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
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
Among them are areas of the Camargue on the Mediterranean, in Brittany both on the English Channel and along the Atlantic coast, and in the Vendée and Gironde, the area near Bordeaux.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2018
That was not, originally, the spirit of La Vendée.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
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