vintage car
used to describe clothing, jewellery, etc. that is not new, especially when it is a good example of a style from the past:
She loves buying vintage clothing.
The actress turned up at the Oscars in a classic vintage dress.
To be called vintage the piece should strongly reflect styles and trends associated with that era.

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Old or old-fashioned
age-old
ageing
ancient
antediluvian
anti-progressive
fossilization
fossilize
fossilized
frumpy
fustily
out of date
outdate
outdated
outdatedly
outmoded
unliberated
unmodernized
unmodish
unprogressive
unreconstructed

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Style & appearance of clothes
of high quality and lasting value, or showing the best and most typical characteristics of a particular type of thing: （尤指过去某个时期）最佳的，最典型的，经典的
This film is vintage Disney.这是一部经典的迪斯尼影片。
It has not been a vintage year for the club (= it has not been very successful).
His performance was not vintage, but it was capable enough.

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

coming from a time in the past
oldBe careful - that clock is very old.
formerHe's a former coworker of mine.
ancientWe need to protect ancient monuments.
archaic"Thee" is an archaic word for "you".

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Extremely good
admirable
amazing
amazingly
ask for someone
award-winning
first-rate
five-star
gold-plated
gourmet
greatness
have no parallelphrase
par excellence
sensational
shining
soar
sock
splendid
splendidly
stellar
wonderfully

vintageadjective (WINE)

[ before noun ]
Vintage wine is of high quality and was made in a particular year and can be kept for several years in order to improve it: （酒）佳酿的，上等的，标明酿制年份的
vintage champagne/port/claret上等香槟／波尔图葡萄酒／干红葡萄酒

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Wines & winemaking
-bodied
ageworthy
amontillado
blender
blush
claret
corkage
full-bodied
grape
hock
jeroboam
Lambrusco
lay something down
plonk
plummy
super-smooth
table wine
terroir
ultra-dry
ultra-smooth
vintage
noun
uk /ˈvɪn.tɪdʒ/ us /ˈvɪn.t̬ɪdʒ/

vintagenoun (AGE)

[ C ]
the wine made in a particular year, or a particular year in which wine has been made: 特定年份酿造的酒;酿造年份
The 1983 vintage was one of the best.1983年酿制的酒是最好的酒之一。
What vintage is this wine? (= In what year was it made?)这酒是哪年酿制的？
[ U ]
a group of things that were produced, or a group of people who were active, during the same particular period: 同时代生产的东西;同时代的一批人
Cars of recent vintage may not need inspection.近期生产的批次的汽车可能不需要检查。
You and I are of the same vintage, so we remember this.

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Wines & winemaking
-bodied
ageworthy
amontillado
blender
blush
claret
corkage
full-bodied
grape
hock
jeroboam
Lambrusco
lay something down
plonk
plummy
super-smooth
table wine
terroir
ultra-dry
ultra-smooth

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Groups of people
Groups and collections of things

vintagenoun (OLD CLOTHES)

[ U ]
clothing, jewellery, etc. that is not new, especially when it is a good example of a style from the past:
I tend to wear vintage but I have a few new designer pieces.
If you want a more interesting watch, consider buying vintage.
I like to buy vintage because you will never see anybody else wearing the same thing.
The photo shows Sarah Jessica Parker, in vintage, at a benefit concert.
Like every proper student, you wore vintage, of course.
Cooking retro is an easy way to score culinary style points - think of it as the equivalent of wearing vintage.
Fashion-conscious customers are buying brooches now and they're mostly interested in vintage.

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Style & appearance of clothes
aesthetic
alterable
anti-fur
Aran
backless
floor-length
flouncy
foppishly
form-fitting
French tuck
ready-to-wear
reversible
ribbed
ribby
ruche
voluminously
voop neck
waisted
washable
wasp waist

vintage | American Dictionary

vintage
noun[ C ]
us/ˈvɪn·tɪdʒ/

vintagenoun[C] (WINE)

the wine made in a particular year, or a particular year in which wine was made
vintage
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈvɪn·tɪdʒ/

vintageadjective[not gradable] (HIGH QUALITY)

(esp. of something old) of high quality and lasting value, or showing the best characteristics typical of the person who created it:
a vintage pistol/airplane/car
"Sophisticated Lady" is vintage Duke Ellington.

vintageadjective[not gradable] (USED)

used but of good quality:
vintage clothing

vintageadjective[not gradable] (WINE)

(of wine) of high quality that was made in a particular year, and that can be kept for several years in order to improve it:
vintage champagne

Examples of vintage

vintage
Of newer vintage are the so-called 'cheap talk' games whereby costless signals provide limited information to decision makers.
It is now a deliberately vintage sound and the fact that it was once the height of modernity lends it a certain charm.
Apart from the benzene alcohols, theaspirene was the compound with the highest concentration in the wines of all three varieties in 2003 vintage.
As the pace of embodied technological progress accelerates, a large amount of vintage capital goods will be outgraded and withdrawn from the productive sectors.
Free 2-phenylethanol was the most abundant compound in the three varieties and in the two vintages.
Abatement efficiency of this equipment was, therefore, a function of design efficiency and vintage.
But the systematic use of'separate spheres' as the organizing concept in the history of middle-class women is of more recent vintage.
The vintage capital notion, by contrast, is somewhat more difficult to reconcile with this presumed correlation pattern.
More directly, investment can be motivated with reference to embodied technology, where cleaner technologies are embodied in more recent vintages of capital.
Neither result provides much evidence in favor of the vintage capital notion.
This problem area, with its large number of quite diverse issues and far more recent vintage, is one that we urgently need to deal with.
It was cumbersome, expensive, and technically messy, but that's how most vintage programmes survived, if they did.
There is vast amount of ' popular ' wine literature, which prefaces its discussions of classed growths and great vintages with potted histories and geographies of wine.
Compulsory saving as a health care financing mechanism is of recent vintage.
Significant differences were found in the levels of all aroma compounds studied in the wines analysed in two consecutive vintages.
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