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Vendue   Listen
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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.)






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"Vendue" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Nicholas the sedition law; but after a little while of common silence, they began to enter into loud conversations, laugh, cough, &c., so that for the last hour of these gentlemen's speaking, they must have had the lungs of a vendue-master to have been heard. Livingston, however, attempted to speak. But after a few sentences, the speaker called him to order, and told him what he was saying was not to the question. It was impossible to proceed. ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson



Words linked to "Vendue" :   by-bid, sale, tender, auction sale, outbid, bid, offer, overbid



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