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Cortaillod|kɔːˈtajəʊ|
The name of a place in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, used to denote a red wine made there from the pinot grape; also applied attrib. to the civilization of the ancient lake-dwellings of western Switzerland. Also Comb., as Cortaillod-Michelsberg.
[1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 362/1 Interesting remains of ancient lake dwellings have been discovered at Estavayer and Cortaillod.] 1888Ibid. XXIV. 115/1 About one-third of the wine produced [in Vaud] is exported, the best-known varieties being Yvorne (white) and Cortaillod (red). 1940C. F. C. Hawkes Prehist. Found. Europe v. 134 The excavations of M. Vouga on the lake of Neuchâtel have revealed what is called, from one of his sites, the Cortaillod culture... The Cortaillod culture extends no further towards the Danubian province than Zürich on the east and the Black Forest on the north. 1957Childe Dawn Europ. Civ. (ed. 6) xvi. 288 The names Cortaillod-Michelsberg, Horgen, and Corded Ware denote three culture periods that follow one another in that order on all the Alpine lakes and bogs. Ibid., The oldest ‘lake-dwellings’ in Western Switzerland were erected by farmers who arrived with a complete neolithic equipment, constituting what is termed the Cortaillod culture—now divisible into an Early and a Late phase. 1962Economist 29 Dec. 1283/2 A red Cortaillod is often found in American wine shops. |