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vinedom en · NOUN

Etymology

From vine + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The world or sphere of vines, often with respect to grapevines, from which grapes are cultivated for winemaking.
    • I should not want to forget the gourd, for this seems to me the clown of vinedom, imitating as it does in grotesque manner other fruits. 1926, Elsa Rehmann, Antoinette Rehmann Perrett, Garden-making, page 85:
    • This Gascony vinedom, whose first cultivators were Gauls working under their Roman conquerors, comprises five distinctive districts. 1958, The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work, volume 29, page 390:
    • This vamp of vinedom outstrips the rest In the race for kisses, cold impress'd By Jack Frost who easy conquest finds. 1923, Well Clay, “Observations and Comments, Pertinent and Otherwise, On the Sunshine and Shadows of Telephone Work”, in Telephony, volume 85, page 20: