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See also: clareé
English
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Noun
[edit]claree
- (archaic) A drink made of wine, honey, and spices.
- 1762 November 13, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letter CCCLXIII, written from Bath, quoted in 1787, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 4, edition 9, page 182:
- I drink but two thirds of a pint in the whole day, which is less than the soberest of my countrymen drink of claree at every meal.
- 2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 3:
- At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree.
- 1762 November 13, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letter CCCLXIII, written from Bath, quoted in 1787, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 4, edition 9, page 182:
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[edit]Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]claree
- inflection of clarear:
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]claree (plural clarees)
- A drink made of wine, honey, and spices
- c. 1300, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:
- He dranke hippocras, clarre, and vernage / Of spices hot, to increase his courage.
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- c. 1300, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:
- Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn, / With nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn.
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Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]claree
- inflection of clarear:
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