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vinyard en · NOUN

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Etymology

From Middle English vyneȝerd, from Old English wīnġeard, by surface analysis, vine + yard.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete spelling of vineyard.
   alt of vineyard
   • 1623,, Sir Francis Bacon, Letter to the Decipherer To the garden, Whose western side, circummured with brick, Is with a vinyard back’d. To that vinyard is a planchéd gate That makes his opening by a little door Which from the garden to the vinyard leads.
   • […] therefore they who are more religiously and holily instructed, neither set a tree nor plant their vinyard, nor undertake any mean work without divine invocation […] 1533 (1651 pub.), Henry Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia/Book 3/Part 1
   • […] she may not be as the fig-tree whome the master of the vinyard came seeking fruit and found none. 1788 (1876 pub.), Mrs. Godwin Senior (as quoted by Charles Kegan Paul), William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, Henry S. King and Co. pub. (1876), p. 55

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