vintager
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of vintager
Example Sentences
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No, indeed my attempt at writing did not come off at all to-day; the composition of a hunter or a vintager, whose shouts are echoing through my chamber, hateful and wearisome as the law-courts.
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
Gauguin uttered the paradox, "Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece," and the novelist Elémir Bourges cried, "This is the painting of a vintager!"
From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James
The vintager is not heard among the vines, nor the harvester on his threshing-floor of stone.
From The Spirit of Place and Other Essays by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
She has her four meals a day, eats like a vintager, and takes her wine neat.
From The Widow Lerouge by Gaboriau, Émile
Vindemiatrix, ε Virginis, "the vintager or grape gatherer."
From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler
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