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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French vendange.
Noun
vendange (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.
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 534:‘I could, of course, stay until after the vendanges, if I wished,’ said the Prince.
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French vendenge, from Latin vindēmia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɑ̃.dɑ̃ʒ/
- Hyphenation: ven‧dange
Noun
vendange f (plural vendanges)
- vintage (yield of grapes for wine-making)
- (by extension) grapes harvested for wine-making
- (chiefly in the plural) grape harvest season
Verb
vendange
- inflection of vendanger:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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