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Claret

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The wine so called does not receive its name from its colour, but the colour so called receives its name from the wine. The word means clarified wine (vinum clareʹtum). What we call hippocras was called clareʹtum, made of wine and honey clarified.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Clapperclaw
Clapper-dudgeons
Clapping the Prayer Books
Claque; Claqueurs
Claras (Stock Exchange term)
Clare (St.)
Clarenceux King-of-Arms
Clarendon
Clarendon Type
Claret
Claret
Claret Cup
Claret Jug (One’s)
Classic Races (The)
Classics
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Claus (Santa)
Clause
Clause Rolls (Rotŭli clausi)
Clavie

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