vendible

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She would have exchanged these odours at the price of her soul--but souls are not vendible, and besides she did not know she possessed one--for the familiar redolences of naphtha and horse-dung and trodden turf.

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  1. adjective Suitable or fit for sale; salable: vendible items of food.
  2. adjective Obsolete Venal.
  3. noun Something that can be sold.

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  1. from Old French vendible = Spanish vendible = Portuguese vendivel = Italian vendibile, from Latin vendibilis, that may be sold, salable, from vendere, sell: see vend.
 

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/ˈvɛndɪbl/
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