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Elegance vs Vintage - What's the difference?

elegance | vintage |

As nouns the difference between elegance and vintage

is that elegance is elegance while vintage is the yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.

As an adjective vintage is

(attributively) of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.

As a verb vintage is

to harvest (grapes).

elegance

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners
  • The bride was elegance personified.
  • Restraint and grace of style
  • The simple dress had a quiet elegance .
  • The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision
  • The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance .
  • (countable) A refinement or luxury
  • * {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=The Governors, chapter=10, edition= citation
  • , passage=Phineas Duge

    vintage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
  • Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
  • The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
  • The year or place in which something is produced.
  • Derived terms

    * make vintage

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (attributively) Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.
  • (attributively) Having an enduring appeal; high-quality, classic (such as video or computer games from the 1980s and early 1990s, or old magazines, etc.).
  • (attributively) Of a motor car, built between the years 1919 and (usually) 1930 (or sometimes 1919 to 1925 in the USA) .
  • Of a watch, produced between the years 1870 and 1980.
  • Derived terms

    * non-vintage, nonvintage * post-vintage thoroughbred * rack vintage * unvintaged * vintage audio * vintage base ball * vintage car * vintage chocolate * vintage clothing * vintage dance * vintage guitar * vintage jewellery, vintage jewelry * vintage model * vintager * vintage snowmobiling * vintage spring * vintage time * vintage wine * vintage year

    Verb

    (vintag)
  • To harvest (grapes).
  • To make (wine) from grapes.
  • Derived terms

    * vintaging

    See also

    * classic * veteran