wine vault

noun

A vault where wine is stored.

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Meanings

nounwine vault (plural wine vaults)

plural wine vaults

  1. A vault where wine is stored.
  2. A place where wine is served at a bar, or at tables; a dramshop.

    they went into a wine-vault, to get materials for assisting them in making a night; where they found a good many young ladies, and various old gentlemen, and a plentiful sprinkling of hackney-coachmen and cab-drivers, all drinking and talking together

    1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Making a night of it”, in Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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