Meanings
plural vendanges
- The annual grape harvest, especially in France.
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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‘I could, of course, stay until after the vendanges, if I wished,’ said the Prince.
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 534
Origin
- Frenchvendange
- Frenchvendange
- Englishvendange
Borrowed from French vendange.
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