Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A storehouse for wine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A place where wine is sold.
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- noun obsolete A place where
wine is sold.
Etymologies
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Middle English viniterie, from Old French vinotier, vinetier, wine merchant. See vintner.
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Examples
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The vintry, he tells us, was that part of the Thames bank where "the merchants of Bordeaux craned their wines out of lighters and other vessels, and there landed and made sale of them."
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Thirty Flemings, who had taken refuge in the churches, were dragged from the altar and were beheaded, thirty-two others were seized in the vintry and also slain.
A March on London 1867
hernesheir commented on the word vintry
A pantry, but for vin.
February 8, 2013