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wine cellar

n.
1. A place for storing wine.
2. A stock of wines.
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wine cellar

n
1. (Brewing) a place, such as a dark cool cellar, where wine is stored
2. (Brewing) the stock of wines stored there
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wine′ cel`lar


n.
1. a cellar for the storage of wine.
2. the wine stored there.
[1325–75]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.wine cellar - storage space where wines are storedwine cellar - storage space where wines are stored
storage space - the area in any structure that provides space for storage
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Translations
veinikelder
caveœnothèque
cantinacantina per vinienoteca

wine cellar

ncantina
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Cato says, the master of a family (patremfamilias) must have in his rustic villa "cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, et gloriae erit," that is, "an oil and wine cellar, many casks, so that it may be pleasant to expect hard times; it will be for his advantage, and virtue, and glory." I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts of peas with the weevil in them, and on my shelf a little rice, a jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each.
One evening Miss Wilson, going downstairs alone to her private wine cellar, was arrested near the kitchen by sounds of revelry, and, stopping to listen, overheard the castanet dance (which reminded her of the emphasis with which Agatha had snapped her fingers at Mrs.
Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.
Them he never injured; their fences, their stock, their crops, their wives and daughters were safe from molestation even though the neighboring castle of their lord might be sacked from the wine cellar to the ramparts of the loftiest tower.
Even the dungeon-like vaults beneath, now lighted and ventilated on the most approved modern plan, had been turned as if by magic into kitchens, servants' offices, ice-rooms, and wine cellars, worthy of the splendour of the grandest hotel in Italy, in the now bygone period of seventeen years since.
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