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  • 21vintage — 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… …

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  • 22Vintage Sports-Car Club — Infobox Organization name = Vintage Sports Car Club image border = size = 150 px caption = VSCC Logo abbreviation = VSCC motto = formation = 1934 purpose = Motor racing club location = Oxfordshire region served = England membership = 7500 (4000… …

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  • 23vintage — [15] The vintage is etymologically the ‘taking away of wine’. The word’s ultimate source is Latin vindēmia ‘grape gathering’, a compound noun formed from vīnum ‘wine’ (source of English wine) and dēmere ‘take away, take off’ (which in turn was a… …

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  • 24vintage — [15] The vintage is etymologically the ‘taking away of wine’. The word’s ultimate source is Latin vindēmia ‘grape gathering’, a compound noun formed from vīnum ‘wine’ (source of English wine) and dēmere ‘take away, take off’ (which in turn was a… …

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  • 25vintage — 1. noun 1) 1986 was a classic vintage for the Cabernet Sauvignon Syn: year 2) furniture of Louis XV vintage Syn: period, era, epoch, time, origin; genre, style, kind, sort, type 2 …

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  • 26vintage — noun 1》 the year or place in which wine, especially wine of high quality, was produced.     ↘a wine of high quality made from the crop of a single identified district in a good year.     ↘the harvesting of grapes for winemaking.     ↘the grapes… …

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  • 27Vintage Stakes — The Vintage Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for two year old thoroughbreds. It is run over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres) at Goodwood Racecourse during the Glorious Goodwood meeting in late July or early… …

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  • 28vintage wine — noun see vintage I, 1a * * * a wine, usually of superior quality, made from selected grapes of a certain type, region, and year, then dated and usually stored for aging …

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  • 29vintage — vin·tage || vɪntɪdÊ’ v. harvest grapes to make wine; gather grapes for wine making; make wine from grapes n. wine from a particular harvest; act of gathering ripe grapes; year in which the grapes of a particular wine were harvested;… …

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  • 30vintage wine — a wine, usually of superior quality, made from selected grapes of a certain type, region, and year, then dated and usually stored for aging. * * * …

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