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Vendean, n. and a.|vɛnˈdiːən|
Also Vendéan.
[f. F. Vendée, the name of a maritime department in western France.]
A. n. An inhabitant of La Vendée, esp. one who took part in the insurrection of 1793 against the Republic.
1796Gentl. Mag. May 407 The Vendeans are extraordinary men. 1837Alison Hist. Europe (1847) III. 326 The Vendéans were in that stage of society when ascendancy is acquired by personal daring. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVI. 201/1 The unhappy Vendeans..were defeated with fearful loss. 1903W. Bright Age of Fathers I. xii. 244 The experience of a fugitive Jacobite or Vendéan.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to La Vendée, esp. in connexion with the insurrection of 1793.
1796Gentl. Mag. May 408/1 The Vendean generals. Ibid. 412/1 The History of the Vendean War. 1839tr. Lamartine's Trav. 149/1 The west..would have been organised once more into Vendean guerillas. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. II. 86 The Vendéan insurrection had been combated by means neither suggested nor directed by the executive. 1911Edin. Rev. Oct. 319 The Breton and Vendéan royalists were still formidable. |