Now arch. or Hist. Forms: 3 viniterie, 5 vyntrye, 6 vyntry, 5–6 vyntre (6 ventre), 6 vyne-, vintree, -trie, 6, 8 vintrie, 6– vintry. [f. VINTER + -Y: see -ERY.] A place where wine is sold or stored; a wine-shop; a wine-vault, or a number of these.
1297. [see VINTER].
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 619/30. Vinitria, vyntrye.
1593. ‘P. Foulface,’ Bacchus Bountie, C j. Claudius Tiberius, the Romaine Emperour, who for the zeale hee had to the vintree, was merely termed Caldius Biberius mero.
1901. Contemp. Rev., May, 728. In the markets, restaurants, and vintries, Jesus saw … that men’s faces were not joyful and friendly.
b. With the (and usually with initial capital): A large wine-store formerly existing in the City of London; also, the immediate neighborhood of this as a part of the city.
The name survives in the designation of the church St. Martin Vintry, now united with St. Michael Paternoster Royal and All Hallows the Great and Less.
a. 1456. Scogan’s Moral Ballad (heading), At a souper of feorthe merchande in the Vyntre in London.
a. 1529. Skelton, Replyc., Wks. 1843, I. 208. They iuge them selfe able to be Doctours of the chayre in the Uyntre At the Thre Cranes.
1556. Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden), 86. Item the furst day of Februarij [1554], the qwenes grace came … un-to the yelde-halle of Londone,… & wente home agayne by watter at the Crane in the ventre.
1557. in Marsden, Court Adm. (Selden), II. 98. Haye Wharf or the Three Cranes in the Vynetree.
1598. Stow, Surv., 191. Then next ouer against S. Martins church, is a large house builded of stone and timber with vaults for the stowage of wines, & is called the Vintry.
[1687. Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., II. Vintry, a great Place for selling of Wine. (Hence in Phillips and Bailey).]
1790. Pennant, London, 310. In this neighborhood was the great house called the Vintrie, with vast wine-vaults beneath.
1826. Scott, Woodst., vii. The bargain was made in a cellar in the Vintry.
1836. W. Herbert, Hist. 12 Gt. Livery Comp. Lond., II. 630. St. Martin in the Vintry was, in the reign of Edward I., called St. Martin Baremannechurch.
attrib. 1598. Stow, Surv., 189. The Vintry ward, so called of Vintners, and of the Vintrie.
