Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vaulted winecellar; hence, any wine-cellar, or place for the storage of wines.
- noun Generally in the plural, a place where wine is tasted or drunk: often used as equivalent to tavern or “saloon.”
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Examples
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That night at about the hour of twelve, the dark figure of a man crossed the garden in the rear of Frank Sydney's house, and approached the iron door of the wine-vault wherein Nero, the African, was imprisoned.
City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson
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Our guide's tongue went glibly as she pointed out these familiar objects, and in the kitchen, buttery, and wine-vault, which were situated conveniently near to the dining-hall, she seemed equally at home.
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After the coal-bin, wine-vault, and sugar-bowl, and linen-closet had been locked up, what more did she need to lock up?
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886
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We traversed the upper regions, mounting by a ladder to the attic; then descended into the cellar and the wine-vault.
Oldport Days 1873
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We traversed the upper regions, mounting by a ladder to the attic; then descended into the cellar and the wine-vault.
Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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'STATION-HOUSE,' and the station-house was filled up with Mr. Thomas Potter, Mr. Robert Smithers, and the major part of their wine-vault companions of the preceding night, with a comparatively small portion of clothing of any kind.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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Would it were the pleasure of the worthy divine bounty that I were at this present hour in the close at Seuille, or at Innocent's the pastry-cook over against the painted wine-vault at Chinon, though I were to strip to my doublet, and bake the petti-pasties myself.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Would it were the pleasure of the worthy divine bounty that I were at this present hour in the close at Seuille, or at Innocent’s the pastry-cook over against the painted wine-vault at Chinon, though I were to strip to my doublet, and bake the petti-pasties myself.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Would it were the pleasure of the worthy divine bounty that I were at this present hour in the close at Seuille, or at Innocent’s the pastry-cook over against the painted wine-vault at Chinon, though I were to strip to my doublet, and bake the petti-pasties myself.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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