vandoo

Public sales also were gatherings which they never missed, it being expected that after the "vandoo" the candidates would take the auctioneer's place.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 Various

It took a long time, after gathering in the fall crops, for Thomas Lincoln to have a "vandoo" and sell his corn and hogs.

The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln Wayne Whipple 1899

In Pittsfield, as early as the year 1765, the pews were sold by "vandoo" to the highest bidder, in order to stop the unceasing quarrels over the seating.

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

Occasionally, by the latter part of the eighteenth century, we read the advertisement of a "vandoo" of "full-made gowns, petticoats and sacs of a genteel lady of highest fashion" -- a notice which reads uncommonly like the "forced sales" of the present day of mock-outfits of various kinds.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

Twenty-second corresponds to vingt-deuxième, which gets slurred into vandoo.

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Twenty-second corresponds to vingt-deuxième, which gets slurred into vandoo.

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I went down to see 'em arter the vandoo, -- you know they got red o 'most everything, -- an' they had fried pork an 'apples for dinner.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

I went down to see 'em arter the vandoo, -- you know they got red o 'most everything, -- an' they had fried pork an 'apples for dinner.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

The old lady bought it at a vandoo down at old Mis 'Walton Peters's after she died, so Mis' Wallis said.

An Arrow in a Sunbeam and Other Tales Frances Lee 1879

Portsmouth, when she once gets started, she shall go whuzzever't is, if she has to have a vandoo herself! '

A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. 1865