vendange
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The annual grape harvest, especially in France.
Example Sentences
- "1953, Patrick O'Brian, The Frozen Flame, 2007, republished as The Catalans, W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, page 179, For them the vendange was a feast, a ritual, a time of strange excitement, more intense by far than the harvest of the corn in the north, more religious."
- "‘I could, of course, stay until after the vendanges, if I wished,’ said the Prince."
Etymology
Borrowed from French vendange.