vintage shout

plural vintage shouts

1. datedliteraryuncountableusuallybiblicalA type of work song sung by grape-treaders.

   so that where the vintage shout is not heard one assumes the occasion to be one of solitude and sorrow.

   1925, Charles William Budden, Edward Hastings, 1 Kings - Malachi, page 30

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   Where aforetime was the vintage-shout in thankfulness for the ingathering, and anticipating gladness to come, there, in the source of their luxury, should be wailing, the forerunner of sorrow to come.

   1860, Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor Prophets - With a Commentary, Explanatory and Practical, and Introductions to the Several Books · Volume 3, page 197

   and "The vintage shout," words long since set to express the simple music that accompanies life and labor in the field, are typical of its quiet, peaceful, cheerful, and innocent character.

   1862, California State Board of Agriculture, Transactions of the California State Agricultural Society, page 216

   literally, a vintage shout, derived from a root meaning to tramp, and alluding to the cry with which the treaders of the grapes used to animate their toil.

   1903, Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick, Frederic Henry Chase, John James Stewart Perowne, Reginald St. John Parry (contributors), The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges: Book of the prophet Jeremiah, together with the Lamentations, page 177

   Synonyms: vintage song