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vendue

obsolete

vendue is a noun meaning “A public auction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-N-D-U-E, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vendue is vendues.

What does vendue mean?

noun

  1. 1

    archaicA public auction.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of vendue

  • vendu

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is vendue?

Vendue appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does vendue come from?

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

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).