Definitions for Vendean

Vendean Ven·de·an

Spelling: [ven-dee-uh n, vahn-dey-]
IPA: /vɛnˈdi ən, vɑ̃ˈdeɪ-/

Vendean is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in Vendean (adeennv).

Definitions for Vendean

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of the Vendée, especially one who participated in the royalist revolt in 1793.

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Vendée or its inhabitants.

Origin of Vendean

1790-1800; Vendée + -an

Examples for Vendean

The president of the district had strong leanings toward a Chouan chief, or a Vendean leader hotly pursued.

In 1799 he entered the military marine at Rochefort, but soon left it to join the Vendean army.

The town and castle were destroyed in 1792 and 1793 during the Vendean wars.

So stoutly was the post held that the Vendean general saw that the bridge could not be taken, without terrible loss.

I am also a Vendean and, as the cause is now lost, I am making my way down to the sea.

Charette, the Vendean leader, retaliated by a holocaust of two thousand republican prisoners whom he had taken.

Austere, as became the gate of Brittany, it had all the luxuriant verdure of the Vendean coast.

My brother-in-law was a Vendean, and has fought through the war.

There was not much chance of the day of her execution being settled before the arrival of the Vendean forces.

A Vendean priest celebrated the mass standing in blood and upon mutilated corpses.

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