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wine, women and song

wine, women and song noun: a hedonistic behavior or lifestyle.

Noun

wine, women and song pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A hedonistic behavior or lifestyle.

Origin of wine, women and song

Attested in classical and medieval Latin, and similar variants also existed in English verse and proverbs such as "Weemen, dise and drinke, lets him nothing" (1576). The exact phrase itself first appeared in a German folk song in 1602 ("Wein, Weib, und Gesang"). First attested in English in Henry Bohn's 1857 translation of Karl Joseph Simrock's proverb collection Die deutschen Sprichwörte. The proverb was popularized by the 1899 publication of Wine, Women and Song, Medieval Latin Student Songs by John Addington Symonds.

Questions about wine, women and song

What does wine, women and song mean?
Wine, women and song means a hedonistic behavior or lifestyle.
What part of speech is wine, women and song?
Wine, women and song is a noun.

Words near wine, women and song in the dictionary

  1. wine waiter
  2. wine waiters
  3. wine waitress
  4. wine waitresses
  5. wine whey
  6. wine, women and song
  7. wine-bibber
  8. wine-bibbers
  9. wine-blue
  10. wine-blues
  11. wine-bottle

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