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Tuesday 18 June 2019

Thing To Be Today: vintage.

Things that are described as vintage have got more valued as they've got older.

Well, it's a nice trick if you can do it.

(And some of us can.)

File:Judi Dench at the BAFTAs 2007.jpg
Judi_Dench_at_the_BAFTAs_2007.jpg photo by Caroline Bonarde Ucci https://www.flickr.com/photos/caroline_bonarde/

File:HM Queen Elizabeth II.jpg
photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/presidenciamx/

File:David Attenborough (cropped).jpg
Wildscreen's photograph of David Attenborough at ARKive's launch in Bristol, England © May 2003 

Thing To Be Today: vintage. This word comes from the Old French vendage, from the Latin vīndēmia, from vinum, wine or grape plus dēmere to take away.



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