English

Noun

Claret ‎(plural Clarets)

1. (soccer) someone connected with Burnley Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Anagrams

• arclet, cartel, rectal

English

Noun

claret ‎(countable and uncountable, plural clarets)

1. (chiefly Britain) 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 colour:

3. (colloquial, sports) Blood^[3]. Often used in a sporting context eg 'He spilt some claret'.^[4]

Synonyms

• traditional dry red (Australia)

Translations

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

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, vermillion, 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, rectal

References

1. ↑ “claret” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
2. ↑ “claret” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
3. ↑ http://thesaurus.com/browse/claret
4. ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-02-14/phil-waugh-spills-some-claret/306330

Latin

Verb

clāret

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of clārō