| 单词 | vintage |
| 释义 | vintage /vin"tij/, n., adj., v., vintaged, vintaging. n. 1. the wine from a particular harvest or crop. 2. the annual produce of the grape harvest, esp. with reference to the wine obtained. 3. an exceptionally fine wine from the crop of a good year. 4. the time of gathering grapes, or of winemaking. 5. the act or process of producing wine; winemaking. 6. the class of a dated object with reference to era of production or use: a hat of last year's vintage. adj. 7. of or pertaining to wines or winemaking. 8. being of a specified vintage: Vintage wines are usually more expensive than nonvintage wines. 9. representing the high quality of a past time: vintage cars; vintage movies. 10. old-fashioned or obsolete: vintage jokes. 11. being the best of its kind: They praised the play as vintage O'Neill. v.t. 12. to gather or harvest (grapes) for wine-making: The muscats were vintaged too early. 13. to make (wine) from grapes: a region that vintages a truly great champagne. v.i. 14. to harvest grapes for wine-making. [1400-50; late ME (n.) < AF, equiv. to vint(er) VINTNER + -age -AGE; r. ME vindage, vendage < AF; OF vendange < L vindemia grape-gathering, equiv. to vin(um) grape, WINE + -demia a taking away (dem(ere) to take from (see REDEEM) + -ia -Y3)] |
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