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vintage(2)(dictionary)
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vintage 1, adjective(dictionary)
vintage 2, noun(dictionary)
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vintage(1) (iou)



vintage noun & adjective. LME.
[Old & mod. French vendange from Latin vindemia, from vinum WINE noun + demere take away, alt. by assoc. with VINTER, VINTNER and assim. to -AGE.]
A. noun.
a. The produce of the vine, either as grapes or wine; the yield of a vineyard or district in a season; the wine made from this. LME.
Shelley The purple vintage..Heaped upon the creaking wain.
b. Wine, esp. of good quality. poet. E17.
c. A wine of high quality made from the crop of a single identified district in a good year. M18.
Washington Post He rates a..1945 Mouton-Rothschild..among the finest vintages.
The gathering of grapes for wine-making, the grape-harvest; the season or time of this. LME.
Burke The produce of the vintage in..Languedoc.
transf. & fig. The year or period when a person was born or flourished or a thing made or produced; a thing etc. made in a particular year or period. L19.
J. Higgins A..silk dress of pre-war vintage.
b. adjective.
Of or pertaining to the vintage; of high quality; characteristic of the best period of a person's or a producer's work, classic; of an old style, from the past, antique. L19.
vintage festival: to celebrate the beginning of the vintage. vintage port port of special quality, all of one year, bottled early and aged in the bottle.
Country Life This [play] may be recommended as vintage Coward. John Morris A bottle of the finest vintage claret. Independent It was not a vintage performance from the Wallabies.
spec. Designating a car made between 1917 or (strictly) 1905 and 1930. Cf. VETERAN adjective 2b. E20.