Definition of "wine-merchant" []

• One who deals in wines and other alcoholic beverages, especially at wholesale, or in large quantities. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A smart North London Jewish wine-merchant, Gerald Roth (Nicholas Woodeson), discovers that the watch his father left him, because it was a gift from his own Jewish mother (a stereotype-shattering Barbara Young), had once belonged to the German Nazi ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and is very valuable."
• "[Return to the letter] 2 John Freeborn (d. 1859), wine-merchant and banker on Via Condotti, Rome."
• "One of these proclamations was signed: Burtot, wine-merchant."