vendue

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Definition

noun the public sale of something to the highest bidder

Etymology

From Dutch vendu and Norman vendue, from Old French vendre, from Latin vēndere.

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Among the assets of 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. — The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Mark Twain
After the execution of the royal victims, however, it was discovered that Citizen Armine had made them an offer to save their lives and raise an insurrection in La Vendue, provided he was made Lieutenant-general of the kingdom. — Henrietta Temple: A Love Story, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
In the largest of them would be from seventy-five to eighty advertisements, setting forth that such a merchant had just received from England or the West Indies a stock of new goods which he would sell for cash; that the Charming Nancy would sail in a few weeks for Londonderry in Ireland, or for Barbados, or for Amsterdam in Holland, and wanted a cargo; that a tract of land or a plantation would be sold "at vendue," or, as we say, at auction; that a reward of five pistoles would be paid for the arrest of "a lusty negroe man" or an "indented servant" or an "apprentice lad," who had run away from his owner or master. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster

Synonyms

auction, auction sale

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