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vendange

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The annual grape harvest, especially in France.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1953, Patrick O'Brian, The Frozen Flame, 2007, republished as The Catalans, W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, page 179, For them the vendange was a feast, a ritual, a time of strange excitement, more intense by far than the harvest of the corn in the north, more religious.

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History

Etymology

Borrowed from French vendange.