vendange
See also: vendangé
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, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 534:
- ‘I could, of course, stay until after the vendanges, if I wished,’ said the Prince.
- 1953, Patrick O'Brian, The Frozen Flame, 2007, republished as The Catalans, W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, page 179,
French
Etymology
From Old French vendenge, from Latin vindēmia, from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“acquire, obtain”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vendange f (plural vendanges)
- vintage (yield of grapes for wine-making)
- (by extension) grapes harvested for wine-making
- (chiefly plural) grape harvesting season
Verb
vendange
- first-person singular present indicative of vendanger
- third-person singular present indicative of vendanger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of vendanger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of vendanger
- second-person singular imperative of vendanger
Further reading
- “vendange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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