vintage

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To partake of this vintage was almost like drinking up the sunshine; darkness, complete and eternal, would follow when this precious shipment was exhausted Of course Mr. Wharton wished to sample such a vintage, any vintage, in fact, since a thousand fires were consuming him, and his nerves were on edge from the night before.

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  1. noun The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
  2. noun Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
  3. noun The year or place in which a wine is bottled.
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vintage:   vintages
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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, alteration (influenced by viniter, vintner) of Old French vendange, from Latin vīndēmia : vīnum, grapes + dēmere, to take off (dē, de- + emere, to obtain; see em- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Altered, by association with vintner, from Middle English vindage, vendage, from Old French vendange, vindange, French vendange, from Latin vindemia, a gathering of grapes, vintage: see vindemial.
  2. from vintage, n.
 

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