Meanings
comparative more unvintageable · superlative most unvintageable
- poeticNot fit to drink.
I stood by the unvintageable sea Till the wet waves drenched face and hair with spray, […]
1881, Oscar Wilde, “[Rosa Mystica.] Vita Nuova.”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 521 more example
Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?
1915, Rupert Brooke, en route to the Bosporus, as quoted by William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518
Origin
From un- + vintage + -able, an allusion to the Greek poet Homer's epithets for the sea.
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