I. adjective
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vintage car
vintage wine (= good quality wine from a particular year )
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He was a collector of vintage wines.
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■ NOUN
car
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The fun includes wine tasting, vintage car display, bouncy castles, pony rides, music and sumo wrestling.
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Hanging red lights shone on leatherette couches and framed relief pictures of vintage cars .
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A friend's husband was mad on vintage cars , so she trailed round to every rally with him.
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She wore it a couple of times, then her husband changed allegiance and went to another make of vintage car !
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From the owners of vintage cars to drivers who've invested thousands of pounds in buying and maintaining former racing cars.
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It's true: his grandfather had one hundred vintage cars .
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Each card displayed a pager number and a drawing of an old-time gangster spraying machine-gun fire from a vintage car .
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The Patrick Collection at Kings Norton houses a unique collection of vintage cars and supercars of today.
wine
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The vintage wine had anointed his tongue with new and seductive language.
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Only a small minority of the wines are kept for a long time as vintage wines.
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Q I've heard that Sainsbury's vintage wine ought to be stored in special conditions.
year
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And Maxwell's vintage years ... the tycoon's wine collection to be auctioned.
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For devotees of downsizing, the signs are that this could be a vintage year .
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It has already been a vintage year for hacking.
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The experts claim it's not a vintage year , so the spotlight has shone firmly on the models.
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He said he had only repeated to the salesmen what Mr Runciman had said, that it was not a vintage year .
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"A lot of people have never been in an open car," says Mike Jacobsen, a computer programmer, who has four vintage convertibles.
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The latest film has a vintage Disney charm.
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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.
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Be suspicious of vintage kosher wines that are older than comparable nonkosher wines.
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Best when aged 2 to 4 years from vintage date.
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The vintage wine had anointed his tongue with new and seductive language.
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The 1960s vintage subs would require substantial refitting.
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While you are waiting for your private audience with the king of the Magic Kingdom you can watch vintage cartoons.
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With its vintage cable cars and cosmopolitan restaurants, the city is brimming with urbane sophistication.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
recent
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But their stardom is of a more recent vintage .
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But it has to be a generation of recent enough vintage so that individual members can still be recollected and characterized.
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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 .
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Hodges finally sits, and I munch on sour dough bread in between sips of the luscious vintage .
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My thanks to all for a superior vintage .
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Some of his competitors are still selling their 1993s, a good vintage but one that should be consumed without delay.