vinedom

English

Etymology

vine + -dom

Noun

vinedom (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The world or sphere of vines, often with respect to grapevines, from which grapes are cultivated for winemaking.
    • 1923, Well Clay, "Observations and Comments, Pertinent and Otherwise, On the Sunshine and Shadows of Telephone Work", Telephony, volume 85, page 20:
      This vamp of vinedom outstrips the rest
      In the race for kisses, cold impress'd
      By Jack Frost who easy conquest finds.
    • 1926, Elsa Rehmann, ‎Antoinette Rehmann Perrett, Garden-making, page 85:
      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.
    • 1958, The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work, volume 29, page 390:
      This Gascony vinedom, whose first cultivators were Gauls working under their Roman conquerors, comprises five distinctive districts.

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