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vendange

vendange noun: the annual grape harvest, especially in France.

Noun

vendange (plural vendanges)

  1. The annual grape harvest, especially in France.
    • 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.1953, Patrick O'Brian, The Frozen Flame, 2007, republished as The Catalans, W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, page 179
    • ‘I could, of course, stay until after the vendanges, if I wished,’ said the Prince.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 534

Forms of vendange

pluralvendanges

Origin of vendange

Borrowed from French vendange.

Questions about vendange

What does vendange mean?
Vendange means the annual grape harvest, especially in France.
What part of speech is vendange?
Vendange is a noun.
What is the plural of vendange?
The plural of vendange is vendanges.

Words near vendange in the dictionary

  1. vendable
  2. vendables
  3. vendace
  4. vendaces
  5. Vendan
  6. vendange
  7. vendanges
  8. Vendans
  9. Vendas
  10. vendaval
  11. vendavals

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