claret
pronunciation
How to pronounce claret in British English:
UK [ˈklærət]
How to pronounce claret in American English:
US [ˈklærɪt]
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- Noun:
- a dark purplish red
- dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine
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- Verb:
- drink claret
Word Origin
- claret
- claret: [14] Claret was originally a ‘lightcoloured wine’ – pale red (virtually what we would now call rosé), but also apparently yellowish. The word comes ultimately from Latin clārus ‘clear’; from this was derived the verb clārāre, whose past participle was used in the phrase vīnum clārātum ‘clarified wine’. This passed into Old French as vin claret.Modern French clairet preserves the word’s early sense ‘pale wine, rosé’, but in English by the later 17th century seems to have been transferred to red wine, and since in those days the vast majority of red wine imported into Britain came from Southwest France, and Bordeaux in particular, it was not long before claret came to mean specifically ‘red Bordeaux’.=> clear
- claret (n.)
- mid-15c., "light-colored wine," from Old French (vin) claret "clear (wine), light-colored red wine" (also "sweetened wine," a sense in English from late 14c.), from Latin clarus "clear" (see clear (adj.)). Narrowed English meaning "red wine of Bordeaux" (excluding burgundy) first attested 1700. Used in pugilistic slang for "blood" from c. 1600.
Example
- 1. Imagine a briton 's new year resolutions : he vows to stop smoking 20 cigarettes a day , forgo his daily bottle of claret and nightly whisky , and stop betting on football .
- 2. For all the talk of competition , politicians in brussels and frankfurt should be praying for growth in america-just as their peers in washington , dc , should be pleased to hear about china 's nouveaux riches ordering german cars and french claret .
- 3. At the end of the 19th century riesling wines , known as " hock " , were fetching higher prices than claret from chateau lafite and veuve clicquot champagne , according to a list from berry brothers & rudd , a london wineseller .
- 4. The maturity , important phenols , and tannin of quality claret species-caberner gernischet in different harvesting time were studied .
- 5. Matching glassware to wine is nothing new raymond postgate ( creator of the good food guide ) published the wonderful 1951 plain man 's guide to wine with illustrations of the five traditional glass shapes , designed for sherry , claret , port , champagne and hock .