claret

See also: Claret

English

Etymology

From Middle English claret, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French claret, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin claratum vinum, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin clarus.

Compare tent (“Spanish red wine”), also from color

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklæɹɪt/, /ˈklæɹət/

Noun

claret (countable and uncountable, plural clarets)

1. (chiefly British) A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.
   • 1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 155:

     CLARET JELLY SANDWICH: Soak one box of gelatine in one cup of cold water, then dissolve in one cup of boiling water, add one cup of sugar and strain. When cold, add the juice of half a lemon, and one cup of claret and set in a cool place. When ready for use, cover thin slices of lightly buttered white bread with the jelly, cover with another slice of buttered bread and cut in strips.

2. A deep purplish-red colour, like that of the wine.

   claret:  

3. (colloquial, sports) Blood.

   The player spilt some claret.

Synonyms

• traditional dry red (Australia)

Translations

wine

• Bulgarian: бордо́ n (bordó)
• Chinese:

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• Finnish: klaretti
• French: bordeaux-clairet m, clairet (fr) m
• Japanese: クラレット (kuraretto)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 클라레 (keullare)
• Norman: Bordgieaux m, clairète m
• Romanian: vin de Bordeaux n
• Russian: бордо́ (ru) n (bordó), кларе́т (ru) m (klarét)
• Spanish: clarete (es) m, vino clarete m

See also

• (regional wine): hock, sack, tent

Adjective

claret (comparative more claret, superlative most claret)

1. Of a deep purplish-red colour, like that of claret.
   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas:

     Dhondt drives a claret 1927 Bugatti Royale Type 41, a real spanker, Sixsmith.

Derived terms

• claret cup
• claret-coloured

Verb

claret (third-person singular simple present clarets, present participle clareting, simple past and past participle clareted)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To drink claret.
   • 1814, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron

     We clareted and champagned till two—then supped, and finished with a kind of regency punch composed of madeira, brandy, and green tea, no real water being admitted therein. There was a night for you!

   • 1869, Andrew Wynter, Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers:

     By night, again, we miss the bright cafe, the brilliantly illuminated offices, and the fringe of guests smoking and clareting […]

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

References

• Paper from the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia on generic wine terminology
• Oxford Companion to Wine – Claret

Anagrams

• arclet, cartel, lacert, rectal

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) clāret

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of clārō

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• clerat, clerote, cleret

Etymology

Old French claret, from Medieval Latin claratum (vinum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklarɛt/

Noun

claret (plural clarets)

1. clary (Salvia sclarea)
2. clary water

References

• “claret (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Adjective

claret

1. (referring to wine) pink, pink-purple, light

Descendants

• English: claret

References

• “claret (adj.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)

whit	grey, hor	blak
red; cremesyn, gernet	citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne	yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
grasgrene	grene
plunket; ewage	asure, livid	blewe, blo, pers
violet; inde	rose, murrey; purpel, purpur	claret