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wine vault

wine vault noun: a vault where wine is stored.

Noun

wine vault (plural wine vaults)

  1. A vault where wine is stored.
  2. A place where wine is served at a bar, or at tables; a dramshop.
    • they went into a wine-vault, to get materials for assisting them in making a night; where they found a good many young ladies, and various old gentlemen, and a plentiful sprinkling of hackney-coachmen and cab-drivers, all drinking and talking together1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Making a night of it”, in Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London...

Forms of wine vault

pluralwine vaults

Questions about wine vault

What does wine vault mean?
Wine vault means a vault where wine is stored.
What part of speech is wine vault?
Wine vault is a noun.
What is the plural of wine vault?
The plural of wine vault is wine vaults.

Words near wine vault in the dictionary

  1. wine tosser
  2. wine tossers
  3. wine trough
  4. wine troughs
  5. wine up
  6. wine vault
  7. wine vaults
  8. wine vinegar
  9. wine vinegars
  10. wine waiter
  11. wine waiters

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