vendange

Borrowed from French vendange.

vendange (plural vendanges)

1. The annual grape harvest, especially in France.
   • 1953, Patrick O'Brian, The Frozen Flame, 2007, republished as The Catalans, W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, page 179,

     For them the vendange was a feast, a ritual, a time of strange excitement, more intense by far than the harvest of the corn in the north, more religious.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 534:

     ‘I could, of course, stay until after the vendanges, if I wished,’ said the Prince.

From Old French vendenge, from Latin vindēmia, from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“acquire, obtain”).

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃dɑ̃ʒ/

vendange f (plural vendanges)

1. vintage (yield of grapes for wine-making)
2. (by extension) grapes harvested for wine-making
3. (chiefly plural) grape harvesting season

vendange

1. first-person singular present indicative of vendanger
2. third-person singular present indicative of vendanger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of vendanger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of vendanger
5. second-person singular imperative of vendanger

• “vendange” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).