Vintage is a style of antiquity , something that used to be called "retro style". Adjective "vintage" is often used in relation to furniture, clothing or even web sites, stylized for the good old days.
The French word Vintage came from winemaking , in which it is used in two ways: as a process of selecting grapes for a particular type of wine and as a wine from the most successful years in terms of the quality of the wine material.
That is, "Vintage Port" is not just "old", but also "qualitative".
Vintage is on the lists: Slang , French words
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