Definition of "vandoo" []

• A dialectal variant of vendue. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Public sales also were gatherings which they never missed, it being expected that after the "vandoo" the candidates would take the auctioneer's place."
• "It took a long time, after gathering in the fall crops, for Thomas Lincoln to have a "vandoo" and sell his corn and hogs."
• "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."