vendange

See also: vendangé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French vendange.

Noun

vendange (plural vendanges)

1. 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/

Noun

vendange f (plural vendanges)

1. vintage (yield of grapes for wine-making)
2. (by extension) grapes harvested for wine-making
3. (chiefly in the plural) grape harvesting season

Verb

vendange

1. inflection of vendanger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “vendange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.