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‖ vigneron|viɲərɔ̃| Also 5 vigneroun, 7 vineron. [F. vigneron, f. vigne vine n.] One who cultivates grape-vines; a wine grower. α1456Sir G. Hay Bk. Knighthood Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 60 The vignerounis labouraris had wroucht all the day, fra the morne early till nycht. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xiv. xii, Lyke a vigneron beryng a sarpe or croked knyf to cut vygnes. 1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 15 Let Readers also surely think and trow, They see the painfull Vigneron pull the grapes. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xxxii. 296 They are become with time and practise more expert vignerons. 1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 273 Because it is a plant which is to be governed like the other vines I refer it to my vignerons. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 117 [He] prunes The End of's Life, as Vignerons Cut short the Branches of a Vine. 1731P. Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Vitis, But as to this, you need not consult either the Merchants or the Vignerons. 1787Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 294, I..can procure for you the best crops from the vigneron himself. 1801C. Smith Lett. Solit. Wand. II. 123 Assisting the vignerons in their now commencing labours of the vintage. 1834Miss Berry Jrnl. (1865) III. 424 To make some new wine, to give the vignerons when getting in the general crop. 1884Blackw. Mag. Dec. 769/2 The vignerons of South Australia..succeeded in producing a vinous liquid that [etc.]. β1683Penn Wks. (1782) IV. 317, I would advise you to send for some thousands of plants out of France, with some able vinerons, and people of the other vocation. 1698G. Thomas Pensilvania 16 [These lands] have produc'd Choice Wine, being daily cultivated by skilful Vinerons. |