CLARET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does claret mean? 

• CLARET (noun)
  The noun CLARET has 2 senses:

1. a dark purplish-red color

2. dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine

  Familiarity information: CLARET used as a noun is rare.

• CLARET (verb)
  The verb CLARET has 1 sense:

1. drink claret

  Familiarity information: CLARET used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLARET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dark purplish-red color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("claret" is a kind of...):

dark red (a red color that reflects little light)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

claret; red Bordeaux

Hypernyms ("claret" is a kind of...):

red wine (wine having a red color derived from skins of dark-colored grapes)

Bordeaux; Bordeaux wine (any of several red or white wines produced around Bordeaux, France or wines resembling them)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "claret"):

Saint Emilion (full-bodied red wine from around the town of Saint Emilion in Bordeaux)

Derivation:

claret (drink claret)

• CLARET (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drink claret

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

They were clareting until well past midnight

Hypernyms (to "claret" is one way to...):

booze; drink; fuddle; hit the bottle (consume alcohol)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

claret (dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine)

 Context examples 

He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers of Fenchurch Street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He’s talking to Lord Panmure, who can take his six bottles of claret and argue with a bishop after it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I never needed it more,” said Holmes as he refreshed himself with a glass of claret and some biscuits in the intervals of his toilet.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This led him to Paganini, and we sat for an hour over a bottle of claret while he told me anecdote after anecdote of that extraordinary man.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Grant was exceedingly well contented to have it so: a talking pretty young woman like Miss Crawford is always pleasant society to an indolent, stay-at-home man; and Mr. Crawford's being his guest was an excuse for drinking claret every day.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Sometimes I am fairly sure I am out of water, and that I should belong in Paris, in Grub Street, in a hermit's cave, or in some sadly wild Bohemian crowd, drinking claret,—dago-red they call it in San Francisco,—dining in cheap restaurants in the Latin Quarter, and expressing vociferously radical views upon all creation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I do not need to be shown the way in a house where I have drunk many a bottle of good claret, cried a deep voice in reply; and there in the doorway stood the broad figure of Squire Ovington in his buckskins and top-boots, a riding-crop in his hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy," I confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. "Can't you talk about crops or something?"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)