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Definition: Vintage spring
Vintage
\Vint"age\ (?; 48), n. [Corrupted by influence of
vintner, vintry, from OE. vindage, vendage, for vendange, OF.
vendenge, F. vendange, from L. vindemia; vinum wine, grapes +
demere to take off; de + emere, originally, to take. See
Wine,
Redeem, and cf.
Vindemial.]
1. The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in
wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
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2. The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making
the wine for a season.
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Vintage spring, a wine fount.
Vintage time, the time of gathering grapes and making wine.
--Milton.
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