vintager
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]vintage + -er, cognate to French vendangeur.
Noun
[edit]vintager (plural vintagers)
- One who gathers the vintage, i.e. a grape harvester.
- 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country[1]:
- The sun, treading the earth like a vintager, drew from it heady fragrances, crushed out of it new colours.
- 1922, Arthur Benton Sanford, An Easter Disciple[2]:
- Matured in all the graces, he is like the ripened Chian clusters that await the vintager in the autumn days.
Translations
[edit]vintager
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