Meaning & use
Vendue
Last updated
A public sale or auction, especially as historically conducted.
See it in a sentence
Colonial merchants often sold surplus goods at a public vendue in the town square.
The estate's furniture was sold off at a vendue attended by dealers from across the region.
A note on using this word
An archaic term, borrowed from French and Dutch, still occasionally found in historical and legal writing about early American commerce.
Words with a similar meaning
auction
Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “Vendue”, then compare your use with the examples above.
Your draft stays on this page and is not sent anywhere.