单词 | vintage |
释义 | vintage n. & adj. --n   1. a a season's produce of grapes. b the wine made from this.   2. a the gathering of grapes for wine-making. b the season of this.   3. a wine of high quality from a single identified year and district.   4. a the year etc. when a thing was made etc. b a thing made etc. in a particular year etc.   5. poet. or rhet. wine. --adj   1. of high quality, esp. from the past or characteristic of the best period of a person's work.   2. of a past season. Phrases and idioms vintage car Brit. a car made between 1917 and 1930. vintage festival a carnival to celebrate the beginning of the vintage. Etymology: alt. (after VINTNER) of ME vendage, vindage f. OF vendange f. L vindemia f. vinum wine + demere remove |
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