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wine vaults

wine vaults is the plural of wine vault.

Meaning of wine vault

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...

Questions about wine vaults

What is wine vaults the plural of?
Wine vaults is the plural of wine vault.

Words near wine vaults in the dictionary

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

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