vinedom
English
Noun
vinedom (uncountable)
- (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.
- This vamp of vinedom outstrips the rest
- 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.
- 1923, Well Clay, "Observations and Comments, Pertinent and Otherwise, On the Sunshine and Shadows of Telephone Work", Telephony, volume 85, page 20:
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