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Vendue   Listen
noun
Vendue  n.  A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction. (Obsoles.)
Vendue master, one who is authorized to sell any property by vendue; an auctioneer. (Obsoles.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Vendue" Quotes from Famous Books



... of snow and rain, Its record, mingling in a breath The wedding bell and dirge of death; Jest, anecdote, and love-lorn tale, The latest culprit sent to jail; Its hue and cry of stolen and lost, Its vendue sales and goods at cost, And traffic calling loud for gain. We felt the stir of hall and street, The pulse of life that round us beat; The chill embargo of the snow Was melted in the genial glow; Wide swung ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck

... the Bolton property, the Ilium tract was sold, and Philip bought it in at the vendue, for a song, for no one cared to even undertake the mortgage on it except himself. He went away the owner of it, and had ample time before he reached home in November, to calculate how much poorer ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner



Words linked to "Vendue" :   upset price, outbid, by-bid, tender, offer, overbid



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