Vintage (n.)
- mid-15c., "harvest of grapes, yield of wine from a vineyard" from Anglo-French vintage (mid-14c.),
- from Old French vendage "yield from a vineyard",
- from Latin vindemia "a gathering of grapes, yield of grapes",
- from comb. form of vinum "wine" + stem of demere "take off" (from de- "from, away from" + emere "to take").
Sense shifted to "age or
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