Obs. Also vind-, vyndage. [ad. OF. vendange (also mod.F.), vendenge:—L. vindēmia.] Vintage.
α. 1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XVIII. 367. May no drynke me moiste ne my thruste slake, Tyl þe vendage falle in þe vale of iosephath.
1388. Wyclif, 2 Esdras x. 37. The firste fruytes … of vendage, and of oile.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 619. Vindemix [sic], vendage.
β. 1382. Wyclif, Lev. xxv. 5. Grapes of thi first fruytis and vyndage thou shalt not gedere.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., I. 134. Kitte hem streit aftir thi good vyndage. Ibid., X. 114. This mone in placis warme & nygh the see, Vyndage is hugely to solempnyse.
