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vinous
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Definition:Of or pertaining to wine; having the qualities of wine;Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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she threw up her hands, sank into a chair, and went off into a deep vinous sleep.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby (1925)
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these kinds of inspiration Lydgate regarded as rather vulgar and vinous compared with the imagination that reveals subtle actions inaccessible by any sort of lens,
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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After a vinous dinner, they walked to Wallingford's apartment—Angie a little unsteadily.
John Irving. The Fourth Hand, p.216 (2001)
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