vendee

Example Sentences

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As a rule, they were paid only by the vendee, and to the market clerk, whose record of the payment was an attestation to the genuineness of the purchase.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

Neither venders nor vendee grieved at the result.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Purchase -- N. purchase, emption†; buying, purchasing, shopping; preemption, refusal. coemption†, bribery; slave trade. buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee; patron, employer, client, customer, clientele.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

His position is thus that of a surety who is liable to his principal should the vendee make default.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

Now I suppose you wouldn’t have thought that I was a vendee, would you?”

From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by Fenn, George Manville