vintner

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  1. noun A wine merchant.
  2. noun One who makes wine.

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  • Wadlow the vintner, at the Devil, in Fleet-street, did lead a fine company of soldiers, all young comely men, in white doublets. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys
  • As a native Croat and a vintner, his interest in and knowledge of wines led him to the firm conviction that the wine Americans call Zinfandel had originated in Croatia. —  American Chronicle
  • "Each vintner is an absolute stand out, and singling out any one for special recognition is a difficult task," said Scott Lutgert, vintner committee chairman and NCEF trustee, in
  • There he carried on the trade of a vintner, and took part in municipal affairs, acting as a councillor from 1617 and as chamberlain in 1621-2 and 1622-3; but after 1630 his affairs grew embarrassed, and he left Stratford late in 1652 for London, where he seems to have died a few months later. —  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
  • He was the son of a London vintner, and was in his youth in the service of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, one of the sons of Edward III. —  Brief History of English and American Literature
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  1. Middle English vineter, from Old French vinetier, from Medieval Latin vīnētārius, from Latin vīnētum, vineyard, from vīnum, wine.

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  1. from Middle English vyntner, vintener, vyntenere, vyntyner, corrupted from the earlier vineter, viniter, from Old French vinetier, vinotier. F. vinetier = Spanish vinatero = Portuguese vinhateiro, from Middle Latin vinetarius, vinitarius, a wine-dealer, from Latin vinetum, a vineyard, from vinum, wine: see wine.
 

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