vintage shout

English

Noun

vintage shout (usually uncountable, plural vintage shouts)

1. (biblical, dated, literary) A type of work song sung by grape-treaders.

   Synonym: vintage song

   • 1860, Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor Prophets - With a Commentary, Explanatory and Practical, and Introductions to the Several Books · Volume 3, page 197:

     Where aforetime was the vintage-shout in thankfulness for the ingathering, and anticipating gladness to come, there, in the source of their luxury, should be wailing, the forerunner of sorrow to come.

   • 1862, California State Board of Agriculture, Transactions of the California State Agricultural Society, page 216:

     and "The vintage shout," words long since set to express the simple music that accompanies life and labor in the field, are typical of its quiet, peaceful, cheerful, and innocent character.

   • 1903, Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick, Frederic Henry Chase, John James Stewart Perowne, Reginald St. John Parry (contributors), The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges: Book of the prophet Jeremiah, together with the Lamentations, page 177:

     literally, a vintage shout, derived from a root meaning to tramp, and alluding to the cry with which the treaders of the grapes used to animate their toil.

   • 1925, Charles William Budden, Edward Hastings, 1 Kings - Malachi, page 30:

     so that where the vintage shout is not heard one assumes the occasion to be one of solitude and sorrow.