claret

See also: Claret

English

Etymology

From Middle English claret, from Middle French claret, from Medieval Latin clārātum vīnum, from clārus.

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklæɹɪt/, /ˈklæɹət/ IPA^(key): /klɛːɹət/

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• (hyperforeign) IPA^(key): /ˈklæɹɪ/, /ˈklæɹə/, /klɛːɹə/
• Rhymes: -æɹɪt, -æɹət, (hyperforeign) -æɹɪ, (hyperforeign) -æɹə

Noun

claret (countable and uncountable, plural clarets)

1. (chiefly UK) A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.

   Synonym: (Australia) traditional dry red

   Coordinate terms: hock, sack, tent

   • The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)

     The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.

   • 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:  

   • 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 243:

     Honey smiled hugely, so that Alex was shown every one of her claret gums.

3. (UK, colloquial, dated) Blood.
   • 1851, Pierce Egan, Every Gentleman’s Manual: A Lecture on the Art of Self-Defence, page 46:

     Time being called, Johnson rose from his second’s knee with the heart of a lion—the immense size and weight of his opponent seemed lost sight of—not a particle of fear belonged to him; and screwing his courage up to the sticking-place, boldly faced his man, putting all the excellence of his science into action, put in such a tremendous blow on the sensitive plant of Perrins—otherwise his sneezer, or nose—whichever term you like best—that split it all the way down as if cut open with a carving-knife; the claret flowing in torrents; and the Giant floored!

   • 1863, John Hanning Speke, Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, page 271:

     I then gave him a dig on the head with my fist. He squared up, and pouted like an enraged chameleon, looking savagely at me. I gave him another dig, which sent him staggering. He squared again: I gave him another; till at last, as the claret was flowing, he sulked off, and said he would not serve me any more.

   • 2017 October 1, “Bygones: Ince gives blood for the cause as he leads from the front in Rome”, in Yorkshire Post:

     Blooded warrior Paul Ince, with his head bedecked in a bandage – if not quite possessing quite the amount of claret spilled by Terry Butcher in Stockholm in 1989 – enforcing order on a patch of green in Rome to help his country triumph in the face of adversity and clear a path to the World Cup finals of 1998.

   • 2019 September 27, “Code Vein review – it's an anime version of Dark Souls”, in Metro:

     You play as one of these Revenants, but there’s no feeding on human blood, as instead the most reliable source of claret comes from things called blood beads, which grow on plants.

   • 2020 January 2, Roxy Simons, “'How the hell am I supposed to sleep tonight, BBC?': Viewers are left terrified by first episode of Dracula with its decapitated nun and blood-thirsty babies (but some are distracted by vampire's quirky accent)”, in Daily Mail:

     He was rejuvenated within a week, thanks to a diet of fresh claret direct from the jugular, while the lawyer slept.

   • 2020 February 8, Wally Downes Jr, “KELL OF A WIN: Kell Brook enjoys triumphant return in Sheffield as he knocks out Mark DeLuca in the seventh round”, in The Sun:

     DeLuca beat the count but Brook had the stench of claret filling his nostrils and he was close to getting the finish before the bell saved the overmatched 31-year-old.

Derived terms

• claretcup
• claret jug
• claret would be port if it could
• clarety
• Gladstone claret

Translations

wine

• Bulgarian: бордо́ n (bordó)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: klaretti
• French: bordeaux-clairet m, clairet (fr) m
• Hungarian: bordói/bordeaux-i vörösbor
• Indonesian: claret
• Japanese: クラレット (kuraretto)
• 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
• Turkish: bordo şarabı (tr)

wine-red color

• French: bordeaux (fr)
• Hungarian: bordó (hu)
• Turkish: bordo (tr)

Adjective

claret (comparative more claret, superlative most claret)

1. Of a deep purplish-red colour, like that of claret.
   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

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

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)}

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• arclet, cartel, lacert, rectal

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English claret (compare French clairet), from Middle English claret, from Middle French claret, from Medieval Latin clārātum vīnum, from clārus.

Noun

claret

1. (cooking) claret: a dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.

Further reading

• “claret” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Verb

clāret

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of clārō

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clerat, clerote, cleret

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klaˈrɛt/, /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