Vendée

Meaning

1. A department of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: La Roche-sur-Yon.
2. A right tributary of the Sèvre Niortaise in western France, flowing through the departments of Deux-Sèvres, Vendée and Charente-Maritime.

Etymology / origin

From French Vendée, possibly from Gaulish *vindos (“white”), from Proto-Celtic *windos (“white”).

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