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claret

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claret: see wine wine, alcoholic beverage made by the fermentation of the juice of the grape. So ancient that its origin is unknown, wine is mentioned in early Egyptian inscriptions and in the literature of many lands.
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claret
1. Chiefly Brit a red wine, esp one from the Bordeaux district of France
2. 
a. a purplish-red colour
b. (as adjective): a claret carpet


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To picnic by some lonely stream-side on a few sandwiches, a flask of claret, and a pennyworth of apples; to talk about the books we loved; to exchange our hopes and dreams,--we asked nothing better than this simple fare.
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I was embarrassed to make a choice, and the steward nearly collapsed when I ordered claret as an after- dinner drink.
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Observing all this in the first comprehensive glance with which a stranger surveys a place that is new to him, Nicholas sat himself down in the box next to the noisy party, with his back towards them, and postponing his order for a pint of claret until such time as the waiter and one of the elderly gentlemen should have settled a disputed question relative to the price of an item in the bill of fare, took up a newspaper and began to read.
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