Vinedom vs Kinedom - What's the difference?
vinedom | kinedom |
(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:
*1926 , Elsa Rehmann, ?Antoinette Rehmann Perrett, Garden-making , page 85:
*1958 , The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work , volume 29, page 390:
As nouns the difference between vinedom and kinedom
is that vinedom is the world or sphere of vines, often with respect to grapevines, from which grapes are cultivated for winemaking while kinedom is kingdom.vinedom
English
Noun
(-)- This vamp of vinedom outstrips the rest
In the race for kisses, cold impress'd
By Jack Frost who easy conquest finds.
- 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.
- This Gascony vinedom , whose first cultivators were Gauls working under their Roman conquerors, comprises five distinctive districts.
