Meaning & use
Vignoles
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Meanings
noununcountabletrademark
A white grape variety grown mainly in the eastern United States, also used to make sweet dessert wines.
Grammar: Used as a mass noun for the grape or the wine; the plural Vignoles is the same form.
Patterns
- Vignoles grape
- Vignoles wine
- a bottle of Vignoles
The winery planted Vignoles on the cooler slope behind the barn.
Vignoles grapes keep their acidity well into a wet autumn.
Their best-selling sweet wine is a Vignoles picked late in the season.
nounproper
A family name, especially that of the French engineer who designed the Paris opera house.
Grammar: Capitalized as a surname; it takes no article when used of a person.
Patterns
- Vignoles designed something
- the Vignoles family
The architect Charles Garnier worked with Vignoles on several projects.
A plaque in the lobby names Vignoles as the engineer.
Common combinations
- Vignoles grape
- Vignoles grape vines are hardy in cold winters.
- Vignoles wine
- They poured a chilled Vignoles wine with the fruit tart.
- plant Vignoles
- Growers who plant Vignoles often sell the crop to dessert-wine makers.
- Vignoles vines
- The Vignoles vines were pruned back hard in February.
Synonyms and how they differ
- Ravat
- An older name sometimes used for the same grape in France, though growers in America prefer Vignoles.
Commonly confused: Vignoles or Vignola?
Vignoles vs Vignola
Vignola is an Italian town and a common surname; Vignoles is the grape and the French surname, so the final -s matters.
Practice
Which sentence uses Vignoles correctly as a grape variety?
Choose one answer.
Vignoles is a grape and a wine, so it fits a drink order. Option 2 is nonsense, option 3 wrongly uses it as a verb, and option 4 treats it as an animal.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “Vignoles”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.