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Definition of vintage in English:

vintage

noun ˈvɪntɪdʒˈvɪn(t)ɪdʒ
  • 1The year or place in which wine, especially wine of high quality, was produced.

    1982 is one of the best vintages of the century
    Example sentencesExamples
    • An open bottle of vintage dated Madeira can last for months, years, maybe even decades.
    • Great vintages of Barsac and Sauternes can not only age, but also actually improve over several decades developing concentration, distinction and power unequalled by any other wine during its life in the bottle.
    • My palate was yearning for some simple, fruity wine from the latest vintage.
    • The term vertical refers to a number of successive vintages of the same wine.
    • Except for the crus, most Beaujolais should be drunk within two to three years of the vintage to retain the wine's fruitiness and brightness.
    • However, in less than good vintages, Sauvignon Blanc from this area can be mean and lean.
    • This would be the vintage of the wine, the year in which the grapes were harvested for the wine.
    • Only pedigree wines of fine vintage improve with age.
    • Unlike in other wine regions, a port is only declared a vintage if the quality is deemed exceptional.
    • Unlike some of the best Bordeaux vintages, the wines are often bothered by a hint of earthy greenness, but in 2000 the grapes got ripe, retained acidity and exhibited supple tannins.
    • In many vintages hardly any Beerenauslese wine is produced anywhere in Germany.
    • Nowhere is this more important than with Burgundy where in great vintages some famous people make average wines and in poor vintages a really dedicated winemaker can still make an excellent wine - at a good price.
    • The owners of famous vineyards could sell their wines in the lesser vintages because of their fame, but you were stuck with wine you couldn't sell easily.
    • Most whites, and many reds, are best within three years of the vintage; wines that age well increase in price over time.
    • The truth is that unless you are a wine trade insider buying the right wine from the right vintage at the right time for the right price, you will never make money on a grand scale out of wine.
    • Previous vintages of Katnook's Cabernet Sauvignon were equally successful.
    • ‘Merlot, vintage 1765,’ she read softly, and almost dropped the bottle in shock.
    • In great vintages their wines are sublime and in lesser years forward (for Barolo) and delicious.
    • The following is my Bordeaux appellation by appellation report of the red wines of the vintage.
    • South Australia's Eden Valley is a top Aussie spot for Riesling and 2002 is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Riesling vintages in years.
    Synonyms
    year
    1. 1.1 A wine of high quality made from the crop of a single identified district in a good year.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A fascinating part of the tour was to taste vintage 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot maturing in two types of French oak, as well as American and Bulgarian.
      • We're popping the cork on a champagne vintage found beneath the sea.
      • Future studies will focus on mixtures, different vintages of the same wine, and regional variations in varietal wines.
      • To boot, you do not have to eat to buy a bottle of the rare vintage of Noyce vino.
      • There's Cuvée Dom Perignon vintage champagne and lashings of caviar.
      • Just to give you some idea of the expense he didn't spare, he cleared out all his belongings when he left, but overlooked a couple of bottles of wine. One was Dom Perignon 1996, one of the best recent champagne vintages.
      • Buying any new, unproven French vintage en primeur, when the wine is still maturing in cask, is a dodgy business.
      • Yet, once you're there, ordering a top vintage with your mates, there's no denying you're a fully-fledged adult.
      • The other more current problem with older vintage wines like this is today's consumer.
      • The wines are continually tasted, and when he judges that they have reached their peak, they are carefully blended to create the chateau's premier cru vintage wine.
      • But the brutish Hemingway will give him no quarter, downing the excellent vintage in a single gulp.
      • I'm not sure how the company manages to source a Grand Cru vintage champagne from the Côte des Blanc for under £20, but let's be grateful that it does.
      • Kiwis have gone from drinking cask wine and sherry to learning to appreciate quality vintages, and that's a development he'll drink to any day.
      • Architects of Wine, which offers to choose fine vintages for rich investors, set up a Grand Cayman office to attract rich Americans.
    2. 1.2literary mass noun Wine.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Wine lovers in the U.S. are increasingly describing their favorite vintage as molto buono, instead of très bon.
      • No, he hooked up his kid with wine, and I bet it was a pretty decent vintage too.
      • He took a sip of a particularly loathsome vintage, chewed on it for a few seconds and, just as he was about to spit, someone tapped him on the arm to ask him a question.
      • Remember how poor our wine was, unlike this glorious vintage.
    3. 1.3 The harvesting of grapes for winemaking.
      the work songs of the scything and the vintage
      Example sentencesExamples
      • From the vintage 1999 on, all the grapes for Barolo were vinified 100% with the new system.
      • A garage wine in the true sense, the 1.4 hectare vineyard yields a miserly 4,000 bottles in a good vintage.
      • The 2001 vintage was a stunning one for Sauternes, and their grapes produced wines oozing in sweetness.
      • In lesser vintages the grapes do not ripen as well as elsewhere but in warmer years the wines can be excellent value.
      • There is a natural information schema in the world of wine, based on things like country of origin, regions, vintners, vintage, kinds of grapes, and so on.
      • All the Sauvignon Blancs I tasted were from the 2002 vintage, and on this showing it seemed that the harvest had been kind to both vine and grape.
      • The 2000 vintage has been so kind to grape growers around the world that most of them have produced excellent wines.
      • The designs on the shield of Achilles, in Book XVIII of the Iliad, contrast scenes of peace and harmonious governance, harvest and the vintage with scenes of war and battle.
      • He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
      • Our climate isn't insuperable, but it makes winemaking difficult in most vintages.
      • Wines in America currently require only 95% of the grapes to come from a given vintage.
      • His mission was to make sure the prime suspect was released in time to bring that year's vintage to harvest.
      • It is a blend of usually the three best recent vintages, from the best vineyards and the best grapes.
      • When fickle Mother Nature looks favorably on the French region, however, no place in the world yields more spectacular vintages than the region's Côte d' Or vineyards.
      • Like a weather forecast expert, she recalled in detail the characteristics of the season of a vintage produced by her chateau.
      • After the 2005 vintage no longer will any white grapes be allowed in the Chianti Classico blend and an era will come to an end in the hills south of Florence.
      • Usually no more than 15 per cent of these blends may hail from a different vintage, or region, or grape.
      • ‘The weather's almost always good for the grapes,’ he says, ‘and vintages don't vary much at all.’
    4. 1.4 The grapes or wine produced in a particular season.
      they have released the 1988 vintage of their best-selling red wine
      he never lost a vintage through frost
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Blending two consecutive vintages is another common, modern wine-producing practice for cheaper wines, to ensure that the switch from one to the other is not too sudden.
      • Until I tasted the 2000 vintage of this Languedoc Chardonnay, I was not very keen on the confected style of this heavily promoted southern white.
      • In the solera system, wine from many vintages is matured in the cellars in separate casks.
      • Loire Cabernet Francs are at their best in hot vintages like 2003, when their potentially stalky flavours are transformed by sunshine.
      • Every Italian fan drools over the quality of the Tuscan and Piedmontese 1997 and 1999 vintages.
      • Non-vintage blends change slightly from season to season as older vintages are replaced, which explains why this ripe, soft, velvety, blackcurranty Cabernet is gentler and creamier than previous batches.
      Synonyms
      grape harvest, grape gathering, grape crop, harvest, crop, yield, year's growth
  • 2The time that something of quality was produced.

    rifles of various sizes and vintages
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If the freak occurrences in pre-season testing are anything to go by, 2000 is threatening to be a vintage (ie: the most competitive) year.
    • We haven't seen Schumacher at his vintage best this year, but he hasn't performed badly either.
    • Among the established heavyweights there has been extensive backing of Holland with bookmakers, while Spain are justifiably in fashion compared to relatively poor vintages on offer from Germany and Italy.
    • Those of us of a certain vintage will remember what a national day of shame this was.
    • People of my vintage will instantly recognise this as most certainly not produced by any common typewriter in use in 1973.
    • Those of you who are of my vintage will remember the wall map from your school days - the good old Mercator's Projection.
    • After his 68 on the first day, the wine farmer uncorked another vintage round of six-under par 66 to beat Des Smyth.
    • Their sound is of the vintage of rock 'n' roll's dawning days, raw but tight, energized but not unduly aggressive.
    • It betrays the vintage of Bartok's quartets no 3 and 4 showing much the same use of one permutating motive governing the total thematic discourse.
    • If there is a better novel published this year it's going to be a hell of a vintage.
    Synonyms
    period, era, epoch, time, origin
    genre, style, kind, sort, type, cast, stamp, school, ilk
adjectiveˈvɪntɪdʒˈvɪn(t)ɪdʒ
  • 1Relating to or denoting wine of high quality.

    vintage claret
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A bottle of vintage wine with a personalized label is a nice wedding favor for those couples with a large budget, or a simply made personalized candle is a nice gift.
    • While you're at it, open a vintage claret to wash it all down and break out the chocolate-covered ants for afters.
    • The wines will include both special occasion vintage wines together with wines suitable for everyday use.
    • But the inherent richness of the question is somewhat like vintage wine, and is appreciated only by a few.
    • Bottle shapes evolved so as to allow extended bottle ageing and thus were born vintage wines, and connoisseurship.
    • The characters - a horse, cat, sparrow, monkey, cat and dog - are fed vintage wine and exquisite food and are blissfully unaware of the outside world.
    • I will serve vintage wine and also a bowl of corn.
    • An award-winning wine cellar boasts over 400 vintage wines, from which they can choose a bottle for dinner.
    • The fine-wine merchant is the place to go if you want to buy and cellar great vintage wines.
    • The old vintage wines in the market may set back a restaurateur hundreds of dollars, but there's no risk.
    • In place of a glass of vintage claret, the normal refreshment was green tea at around four.
    • Watching from the corner of her eye, she saw him swirl the alcohol in the glass as if it were a fine vintage wine, ready to be savored.
    • Homeless people on the edge of starvation do on average need that next dollar more than the fashionable elites choosing between vintage wines.
    • If we wouldn't guzzle vintage wine, then shouldn't we accord the same respect to life itself?
    • This is basically a vintage wine that has been aged in oak like a Tawny.
    • We organised a present of a bottle of vintage wine for Walter and it was placed by his board.
    • One wine writer of the old school refused to partner his great vintage clarets with smelly French cheeses, believing the pair to clash horribly.
    • But the quality of the year is crucial in vintage wines.
    • It supplies everything from gourmet foods and vintage wines to the most luxurious toiletries, and even freshly-cut flowers.
    • One group unpacked a sumptuous meal of steaming lasagna and other gourmet delights, along with the requisite bottle of vintage wine.
    Synonyms
    high-quality, quality, prime, choice, select, superior, best
  • 2Denoting something from the past of high quality, especially something representing the best of its kind.

    a vintage Sherlock Holmes adventure
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You can also find a similar suede jacket at select vintage clothing stores.
    • By age 13, he had a small but representative collection of vintage rifles, sights and other accessories.
    • Three vintage motorcycles added a further exciting dimension for motor lovers to what was a truly enjoyable weekend.
    • The vintage vehicles, representing one of the world's finest collections of military transport, were leaving the defunct museum, which closed down last year.
    • A bout of jaundice took the edge off my stamina once and for all and I realised then that human bodies are not like vintage motor cars.
    • So, just before I stash all my bits of paper from 20 years ago back up in the attic, here are a vintage selection of doodles from my Berlin years, 1983 to 1984.
    • She said her site would be able to carve out a niche by specialising in high-quality and vintage fashion, and by offering members the opportunity to exchange goods as well as buy and sell.
    • The convoy will be accompanied by a guard of honour of 25 vintage motorcycles and will receive a Garda escort throughout its route.
    • The vintage selection is beautiful, with 1950s print dresses costing £55, but the no-returns policy means it might be safer to stick to the main range.
    • He has a Santa Claus-like beard and often wears vintage leather motorcycle gear.
    • Many seek out vintage food and wine posters, which ‘have become a huge business,’ she said.
    • One gentleman from Krishna district comes in a vintage 1958 Italian Fiat.
    • What we have here is a stunning musical idea with superior vintage Sondheim songs, all in search of a book.
    • She also opened an office in Ireland after realising the country had no suitable insurance policies for vintage motorcycles.
    • The museum's hangars house rare and vintage aircraft from Alaska's past.
    • On display will be old tractors, implements, stationary engines, model steam engines, vintage motor cycles and cars, crafts and displays.
    • Lynn Wyatt reached into her attic closet, rich with magnificent gowns, and selected a vintage haute couture Nina Ricci.
    • Motorcycles, trucks, off-road vehicles, even vintage Volkswagen bugs are part of the lineup.
    • Interest in vintage transport has been growing steadily over the past number of years and it will form a major part of the show.
    • Top-end couture will be represented by a collection of vintage Galliano knitwear, all of which featured in his first show as an independent designer.
    Synonyms
    classic, ageless, timeless, enduring
    old, antique, veteran, heritage, historic, old-world, age-old

Origin

Late Middle English: alteration (influenced by vintner) of earlier vendage, from Old French vendange, from Latin vindemia (from vinum 'wine' + demere 'remove').

Rhymes

mintage
 
 

Definition of vintage in US English:

vintage

nounˈvɪn(t)ɪdʒˈvin(t)ij
  • 1The year or place in which wine, especially wine of high quality, was produced.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Except for the crus, most Beaujolais should be drunk within two to three years of the vintage to retain the wine's fruitiness and brightness.
    • Great vintages of Barsac and Sauternes can not only age, but also actually improve over several decades developing concentration, distinction and power unequalled by any other wine during its life in the bottle.
    • This would be the vintage of the wine, the year in which the grapes were harvested for the wine.
    • However, in less than good vintages, Sauvignon Blanc from this area can be mean and lean.
    • Previous vintages of Katnook's Cabernet Sauvignon were equally successful.
    • ‘Merlot, vintage 1765,’ she read softly, and almost dropped the bottle in shock.
    • Most whites, and many reds, are best within three years of the vintage; wines that age well increase in price over time.
    • South Australia's Eden Valley is a top Aussie spot for Riesling and 2002 is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Riesling vintages in years.
    • In great vintages their wines are sublime and in lesser years forward (for Barolo) and delicious.
    • Nowhere is this more important than with Burgundy where in great vintages some famous people make average wines and in poor vintages a really dedicated winemaker can still make an excellent wine - at a good price.
    • My palate was yearning for some simple, fruity wine from the latest vintage.
    • The truth is that unless you are a wine trade insider buying the right wine from the right vintage at the right time for the right price, you will never make money on a grand scale out of wine.
    • The following is my Bordeaux appellation by appellation report of the red wines of the vintage.
    • In many vintages hardly any Beerenauslese wine is produced anywhere in Germany.
    • The term vertical refers to a number of successive vintages of the same wine.
    • The owners of famous vineyards could sell their wines in the lesser vintages because of their fame, but you were stuck with wine you couldn't sell easily.
    • Unlike some of the best Bordeaux vintages, the wines are often bothered by a hint of earthy greenness, but in 2000 the grapes got ripe, retained acidity and exhibited supple tannins.
    • Unlike in other wine regions, a port is only declared a vintage if the quality is deemed exceptional.
    • An open bottle of vintage dated Madeira can last for months, years, maybe even decades.
    • Only pedigree wines of fine vintage improve with age.
    Synonyms
    year
    1. 1.1 A wine of high quality made from the crop of a single identified district in a good year.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Buying any new, unproven French vintage en primeur, when the wine is still maturing in cask, is a dodgy business.
      • The other more current problem with older vintage wines like this is today's consumer.
      • I'm not sure how the company manages to source a Grand Cru vintage champagne from the Côte des Blanc for under £20, but let's be grateful that it does.
      • The wines are continually tasted, and when he judges that they have reached their peak, they are carefully blended to create the chateau's premier cru vintage wine.
      • Future studies will focus on mixtures, different vintages of the same wine, and regional variations in varietal wines.
      • Just to give you some idea of the expense he didn't spare, he cleared out all his belongings when he left, but overlooked a couple of bottles of wine. One was Dom Perignon 1996, one of the best recent champagne vintages.
      • We're popping the cork on a champagne vintage found beneath the sea.
      • Architects of Wine, which offers to choose fine vintages for rich investors, set up a Grand Cayman office to attract rich Americans.
      • But the brutish Hemingway will give him no quarter, downing the excellent vintage in a single gulp.
      • To boot, you do not have to eat to buy a bottle of the rare vintage of Noyce vino.
      • There's Cuvée Dom Perignon vintage champagne and lashings of caviar.
      • A fascinating part of the tour was to taste vintage 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot maturing in two types of French oak, as well as American and Bulgarian.
      • Kiwis have gone from drinking cask wine and sherry to learning to appreciate quality vintages, and that's a development he'll drink to any day.
      • Yet, once you're there, ordering a top vintage with your mates, there's no denying you're a fully-fledged adult.
    2. 1.2literary Wine.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Wine lovers in the U.S. are increasingly describing their favorite vintage as molto buono, instead of très bon.
      • No, he hooked up his kid with wine, and I bet it was a pretty decent vintage too.
      • He took a sip of a particularly loathsome vintage, chewed on it for a few seconds and, just as he was about to spit, someone tapped him on the arm to ask him a question.
      • Remember how poor our wine was, unlike this glorious vintage.
    3. 1.3 The harvesting of grapes for winemaking.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The 2001 vintage was a stunning one for Sauternes, and their grapes produced wines oozing in sweetness.
      • A garage wine in the true sense, the 1.4 hectare vineyard yields a miserly 4,000 bottles in a good vintage.
      • His mission was to make sure the prime suspect was released in time to bring that year's vintage to harvest.
      • Like a weather forecast expert, she recalled in detail the characteristics of the season of a vintage produced by her chateau.
      • In lesser vintages the grapes do not ripen as well as elsewhere but in warmer years the wines can be excellent value.
      • ‘The weather's almost always good for the grapes,’ he says, ‘and vintages don't vary much at all.’
      • When fickle Mother Nature looks favorably on the French region, however, no place in the world yields more spectacular vintages than the region's Côte d' Or vineyards.
      • Usually no more than 15 per cent of these blends may hail from a different vintage, or region, or grape.
      • All the Sauvignon Blancs I tasted were from the 2002 vintage, and on this showing it seemed that the harvest had been kind to both vine and grape.
      • Our climate isn't insuperable, but it makes winemaking difficult in most vintages.
      • There is a natural information schema in the world of wine, based on things like country of origin, regions, vintners, vintage, kinds of grapes, and so on.
      • The designs on the shield of Achilles, in Book XVIII of the Iliad, contrast scenes of peace and harmonious governance, harvest and the vintage with scenes of war and battle.
      • The 2000 vintage has been so kind to grape growers around the world that most of them have produced excellent wines.
      • It is a blend of usually the three best recent vintages, from the best vineyards and the best grapes.
      • From the vintage 1999 on, all the grapes for Barolo were vinified 100% with the new system.
      • Wines in America currently require only 95% of the grapes to come from a given vintage.
      • He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
      • After the 2005 vintage no longer will any white grapes be allowed in the Chianti Classico blend and an era will come to an end in the hills south of Florence.
    4. 1.4 The grapes or wine produced in a particular season.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Until I tasted the 2000 vintage of this Languedoc Chardonnay, I was not very keen on the confected style of this heavily promoted southern white.
      • In the solera system, wine from many vintages is matured in the cellars in separate casks.
      • Loire Cabernet Francs are at their best in hot vintages like 2003, when their potentially stalky flavours are transformed by sunshine.
      • Non-vintage blends change slightly from season to season as older vintages are replaced, which explains why this ripe, soft, velvety, blackcurranty Cabernet is gentler and creamier than previous batches.
      • Blending two consecutive vintages is another common, modern wine-producing practice for cheaper wines, to ensure that the switch from one to the other is not too sudden.
      • Every Italian fan drools over the quality of the Tuscan and Piedmontese 1997 and 1999 vintages.
      Synonyms
      grape harvest, grape gathering, grape crop, harvest, crop, yield, year's growth
    5. 1.5 The time that something of quality was produced.
      rifles of various sizes and vintages
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It betrays the vintage of Bartok's quartets no 3 and 4 showing much the same use of one permutating motive governing the total thematic discourse.
      • People of my vintage will instantly recognise this as most certainly not produced by any common typewriter in use in 1973.
      • Their sound is of the vintage of rock 'n' roll's dawning days, raw but tight, energized but not unduly aggressive.
      • Among the established heavyweights there has been extensive backing of Holland with bookmakers, while Spain are justifiably in fashion compared to relatively poor vintages on offer from Germany and Italy.
      • If there is a better novel published this year it's going to be a hell of a vintage.
      • We haven't seen Schumacher at his vintage best this year, but he hasn't performed badly either.
      • Those of you who are of my vintage will remember the wall map from your school days - the good old Mercator's Projection.
      • Those of us of a certain vintage will remember what a national day of shame this was.
      • If the freak occurrences in pre-season testing are anything to go by, 2000 is threatening to be a vintage (ie: the most competitive) year.
      • After his 68 on the first day, the wine farmer uncorked another vintage round of six-under par 66 to beat Des Smyth.
      Synonyms
      period, era, epoch, time, origin
adjectiveˈvɪn(t)ɪdʒˈvin(t)ij
  • 1Relating to or denoting wine of high quality.

    vintage claret
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is basically a vintage wine that has been aged in oak like a Tawny.
    • But the quality of the year is crucial in vintage wines.
    • The old vintage wines in the market may set back a restaurateur hundreds of dollars, but there's no risk.
    • But the inherent richness of the question is somewhat like vintage wine, and is appreciated only by a few.
    • In place of a glass of vintage claret, the normal refreshment was green tea at around four.
    • The characters - a horse, cat, sparrow, monkey, cat and dog - are fed vintage wine and exquisite food and are blissfully unaware of the outside world.
    • While you're at it, open a vintage claret to wash it all down and break out the chocolate-covered ants for afters.
    • It supplies everything from gourmet foods and vintage wines to the most luxurious toiletries, and even freshly-cut flowers.
    • I will serve vintage wine and also a bowl of corn.
    • An award-winning wine cellar boasts over 400 vintage wines, from which they can choose a bottle for dinner.
    • Homeless people on the edge of starvation do on average need that next dollar more than the fashionable elites choosing between vintage wines.
    • The wines will include both special occasion vintage wines together with wines suitable for everyday use.
    • A bottle of vintage wine with a personalized label is a nice wedding favor for those couples with a large budget, or a simply made personalized candle is a nice gift.
    • The fine-wine merchant is the place to go if you want to buy and cellar great vintage wines.
    • One wine writer of the old school refused to partner his great vintage clarets with smelly French cheeses, believing the pair to clash horribly.
    • We organised a present of a bottle of vintage wine for Walter and it was placed by his board.
    • Bottle shapes evolved so as to allow extended bottle ageing and thus were born vintage wines, and connoisseurship.
    • If we wouldn't guzzle vintage wine, then shouldn't we accord the same respect to life itself?
    • One group unpacked a sumptuous meal of steaming lasagna and other gourmet delights, along with the requisite bottle of vintage wine.
    • Watching from the corner of her eye, she saw him swirl the alcohol in the glass as if it were a fine vintage wine, ready to be savored.
    Synonyms
    high-quality, quality, prime, choice, select, superior, best
    1. 1.1 Denoting something of high quality, especially something from the past or characteristic of the best period of a person's work.
      a vintage Sherlock Holmes adventure
      Example sentencesExamples
      • On display will be old tractors, implements, stationary engines, model steam engines, vintage motor cycles and cars, crafts and displays.
      • Three vintage motorcycles added a further exciting dimension for motor lovers to what was a truly enjoyable weekend.
      • The vintage selection is beautiful, with 1950s print dresses costing £55, but the no-returns policy means it might be safer to stick to the main range.
      • The convoy will be accompanied by a guard of honour of 25 vintage motorcycles and will receive a Garda escort throughout its route.
      • Motorcycles, trucks, off-road vehicles, even vintage Volkswagen bugs are part of the lineup.
      • What we have here is a stunning musical idea with superior vintage Sondheim songs, all in search of a book.
      • A bout of jaundice took the edge off my stamina once and for all and I realised then that human bodies are not like vintage motor cars.
      • Top-end couture will be represented by a collection of vintage Galliano knitwear, all of which featured in his first show as an independent designer.
      • He has a Santa Claus-like beard and often wears vintage leather motorcycle gear.
      • She said her site would be able to carve out a niche by specialising in high-quality and vintage fashion, and by offering members the opportunity to exchange goods as well as buy and sell.
      • Lynn Wyatt reached into her attic closet, rich with magnificent gowns, and selected a vintage haute couture Nina Ricci.
      • Many seek out vintage food and wine posters, which ‘have become a huge business,’ she said.
      • She also opened an office in Ireland after realising the country had no suitable insurance policies for vintage motorcycles.
      • By age 13, he had a small but representative collection of vintage rifles, sights and other accessories.
      • So, just before I stash all my bits of paper from 20 years ago back up in the attic, here are a vintage selection of doodles from my Berlin years, 1983 to 1984.
      • One gentleman from Krishna district comes in a vintage 1958 Italian Fiat.
      • The vintage vehicles, representing one of the world's finest collections of military transport, were leaving the defunct museum, which closed down last year.
      • Interest in vintage transport has been growing steadily over the past number of years and it will form a major part of the show.
      • The museum's hangars house rare and vintage aircraft from Alaska's past.
      • You can also find a similar suede jacket at select vintage clothing stores.
      Synonyms
      high-quality, quality, prime, choice, select, superior, best
      classic, ageless, timeless, enduring

Origin

Late Middle English: alteration (influenced by vintner) of earlier vendage, from Old French vendange, from Latin vindemia (from vinum ‘wine’ + demere ‘remove’).

 
 
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