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 Vineyard Controversy.Vin’try Ward. (London). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Vi’no. In vino veritas.
 
In wine is truth, meaning when persons are more or less intoxicated they utter many things they would at other times conceal or disguise. (Latin.)   1
 


 Vineyard Controversy.Vin’try Ward. (London). 

 
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