VINTAGE


Meaning of VINTAGE in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

vintage car

vintage wine (= good quality wine from a particular year )

He was a collector of vintage wines.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

car

The fun includes wine tasting, vintage car display, bouncy castles, pony rides, music and sumo wrestling.

Hanging red lights shone on leatherette couches and framed relief pictures of vintage cars .

A friend's husband was mad on vintage cars , so she trailed round to every rally with him.

She wore it a couple of times, then her husband changed allegiance and went to another make of vintage car !

From the owners of vintage cars to drivers who've invested thousands of pounds in buying and maintaining former racing cars.

It's true: his grandfather had one hundred vintage cars .

Each card displayed a pager number and a drawing of an old-time gangster spraying machine-gun fire from a vintage car .

The Patrick Collection at Kings Norton houses a unique collection of vintage cars and supercars of today.

wine

The vintage wine had anointed his tongue with new and seductive language.

Only a small minority of the wines are kept for a long time as vintage wines.

Q I've heard that Sainsbury's vintage wine ought to be stored in special conditions.

year

And Maxwell's vintage years ... the tycoon's wine collection to be auctioned.

For devotees of downsizing, the signs are that this could be a vintage year .

It has already been a vintage year for hacking.

The experts claim it's not a vintage year , so the spotlight has shone firmly on the models.

He said he had only repeated to the salesmen what Mr Runciman had said, that it was not a vintage year .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

"A lot of people have never been in an open car," says Mike Jacobsen, a computer programmer, who has four vintage convertibles.

The latest film has a vintage Disney charm.

They lunched on lobster and strawberries, accompanied by a fine vintage champagne.

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And over the weekend there's the usual chance to see the traditional display and run of vintage machinery.

Be suspicious of vintage kosher wines that are older than comparable nonkosher wines.

Best when aged 2 to 4 years from vintage date.

The vintage wine had anointed his tongue with new and seductive language.

The 1960s vintage subs would require substantial refitting.

While you are waiting for your private audience with the king of the Magic Kingdom you can watch vintage cartoons.

With its vintage cable cars and cosmopolitan restaurants, the city is brimming with urbane sophistication.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

recent

But their stardom is of a more recent vintage .

But it has to be a generation of recent enough vintage so that individual members can still be recollected and characterized.

In one of more recent vintage , a Philip Morris researcher compares nicotine to cocaine in terms of its addictive properties.

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But their stardom is of a more recent vintage .

Hodges finally sits, and I munch on sour dough bread in between sips of the luscious vintage .

My thanks to all for a superior vintage .

Some of his competitors are still selling their 1993s, a good vintage but one that should be consumed without delay.

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