vintage song

plural vintage songs

1. datedliterarySynonym of vintage shout.

   Groups of vintagers..were gathering grapes, and singing the vintage song.

   1928, William A. Craigie, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, page 218

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   They obſerved the ſame Ceremonies yearly, and call'd them Trygodie, that is Vintage Song;

   1701, The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary; Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History ... Collected from the Best Historians, Chronologers and Lexicographers ... But More Especially Out of Lewis Morery, D.D. His Eighth Edition Corrected and Enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc ... The First[-second] Volume, Volume 2

   and lending their clear and joyous voices to the wild chorus of the vintage-song that their elders were pealing out;

   1838, Julia Pardoe, The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Volume 3, page 310

   A more probable explanation, however, is that "set to Gittith" refers to the tune of a vintage song;

   1910, William Oscar Emil Oesterley, The Psalms in the Jewish Church, page 55

   It is known that it was a vintage song in France and Spain, and a reapers' song in Holland.

   1915, George Putnam Upton, The Song - Its Birth, Evolution, and Functions: with Numerous Selections from Old English Lyrics, page 82

   Synonyms: vintage shout