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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vendee \Vend*ee"\, n. The person to whom a thing is vended, or sold; -- the correlative of vendor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
department of western France, French Vendée, named for the river through it, which is perhaps from Gaulish vindos "white." Especially in reference to the insurrection there against the Republic in 1793. Related: Vendean.
"person to whom something is sold," 1540s; see vend (v.) + -ee.
Wiktionary
n. The person to whom something is sell; a purchaser.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The Vendée is a department in the Pays-de-la-Loire region in west-central France, on the Atlantic Ocean. The name Vendée is taken from the Vendée river which runs through the southeastern part of the department.
The Vendée is a small river in western France, right tributary to the river Sèvre Niortaise. Its source is near L'Absie, in the west of the Deux-Sèvres département. For a few kilometres, it forms the border between the départements Vendée (named after the river) and Charente-Maritime before it flows into the Sèvre Niortaise, near Marans.
It flows through the following départements and towns:
- Deux-Sèvres: Saint-Paul-en-Gâtine
- Vendée: Mervent, Fontenay-le-Comte, Velluire, L'Île-d'Elle
- Charente-Maritime
Usage examples of "vendee".
Basin to those provinces where the war of the Vendee was soon to strike France from within, while England, and presently all Europe, should strike her from without.
King in the Vendee, the old Duke, with a dreamy indifference to the opinion of Europe, had proclaimed alliance with the new Government.
Also she was in close sympathy with the war of the Vendee, to which she would lend all possible assistance.
Bercy: a Royalist of the Vendee exposing himself to deadly peril in a town sworn to alliance with the Revolutionary Government.
To France--yes, that was it, to the war of the Vendee, to join Detricand.
Shamed and dishonoured in Jersey, in that holy war of the Vendee he would find something to kill memory, to take him out of life without disgrace.
The army of the Vendee, under Detricand Comte de Tournay, had made a last dash at a small town held by a section of the Republican army, and captured it.
As his grasp closed on it, he recognised Detricand, and at the same time he saw the cross and heart of the Vendee on his coat.
Intending to join Detricand in the Vendee, he had scarcely landed at St.
Poitou, and more especially of that portion of it known as La Vendee, in the defence of their religion and their rights as free men.
With the exception of its forests, La Vendee offered no natural advantages for defence.
I have no uneasiness for, if troubles break out at Nantes, we can retire to my chateau, in the thickest and most wooded part of La Vendee, where there is no fear that the peasants will ever rise against their masters.
On the other hand, in La Vendee I am Monsieur Jean Martin, a landed proprietor, and on friendly terms with all the nobles and gentry in my neighbourhood.
La Vendee heightened his satisfaction at leaving Nantes, and going down to stay in the country.
La Vendee rose against these executioners of Paris, every man of honour and loyalty should aid in the good cause.