How To Use Claret In A Sentence

They will drink their wretched heartless stuff, such as they call claret, or wine of Medoc, or Bordeaux, or what not, with no more meaning than sour rennet, stirred with the pulp from the cider press, and strained through the cap of our Betty. Lorna Doone
True to form, the finished 2003 wines delivered record-breaking levels of tannin, sugar and alcohol; many châteaux have made clarets weighing in at 15 per cent-plus alcohol, as in Australia and California.
We collapse in exhausted triumph with a glass of claret and a chunk of home-made cake. Times, Sunday Times
Because of this fact alone I should not commend the diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret. Suburban Sketches
The drink was the same fiery distillation that was known as claret, sherry, brandy, rum, whisky, or whatever else a role might call for. Hokas Pokas

This chateau makes wine for Old World claret drinkers rather than for the powerful New World wine critic, Robert Parker.
Alpha-naphthylamine, Bluish claret red; Reddish puce. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
The training ground has been repainted, the traditional claret replaced with brighter and more cheerful colours.
His nose changed from the natural copper hue which it had acquired from many a comfortable cup of claret or sack, into a palish brassy tint, and his teeth chattered with apprehension at the unveiled audacity of my proposal, which seemed to place the barefaced plunderer before him in full atrocity. Rob Roy
Two or three cups of the stalks, with leaves put into a cup of wine, especially claret, are known to quicken the spirits, refresh and cheer the heart, and drive away melancholy.
And as to your Rhenish and claret, and such stuff, I would not give a penny for the lot -- I'd as soon have a quart of alegar. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
The wine list is impressively traditional with clarets stretching back to 1979, but there is also a reasonable choice of wines by the glass.
While you're at it, open a vintage claret to wash it all down and break out the chocolate-covered ants for afters.
Today's underpants colour: I guess you'd call them claret.
First came the appetizers in form of thin slices of salami and of a peculiar Mexican sausage, so extremely hot with chili pepino as to immediately call for a drink of claret to assuage the burning. Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.
While from his gob the guggling claret gush'd [12] Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
He poured clumsily, spilling a good amount of claret as the carriage bumped along.
From deep claret to fruity merlot, burgundy colours are hot fashion news. The Sun
He poured clumsily, spilling a good amount of claret as the carriage bumped along.
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Clarets chief Cotterill was smarting after seeing referee Colin Webster ignore his side's appeals for two late spot kicks after Ian Moore had already missed a late penalty.
He was a connoisseur of fine wine (particularly claret) and enjoyed the opera. Times, Sunday Times
Purple or rich claret seems the colour of the moment, but pattern is also much the rage. Times, Sunday Times
His larder is well supplied with poultry and wild fowl, his cellar contains "lashings," not only of "Parliament and pot," or "John Jamieson" and illicit "potheen," but of port and sherry, claret and champagne. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
In the twelfth round, Gamble put in a tremendous facer, that split his opponent's nose, and the claret flew in all directions.
Having said that, the refined bouquet and taste of the finest and rarest red wines from the Old World, such as burgundy and claret, are not the bottles to choose either for hot days.
The trot, sir '' (striking his Bucephalus with his spurs), --- ` ` the trot is the true pace for a hackney; and, were we near a town, I should like to try that daisy-cutter of yours upon a piece of level road (barring canter) for a quart of claret at the next inn. '' Rob Roy
We collapse in exhausted triumph with a glass of claret and a chunk of home-made cake. Times, Sunday Times
It was really an admirable little dinner; the claret was a famous one from the Anglemere cellars, and warmed to a nicety; the coffee was perfection; Sparling's ministrations left nothing to be desired; and yet Drake sank into his easy-chair after the meal with a sigh that was weary and wistful. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden
This applies to no more than a handful of wine styles: claret, red and white Burgundy, Rhône reds, Tuscan and Piedmontese reds, vintage port, vintage champagne, a few Spanish reds, Mosel Rieslings and Californian Cabernets.
Eggs three or four, rosy or faint purplish white, thickly sprinkled with specks and spots of darker rufescent purple or claret colour. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
After thumping Burnley 5-1 last Saturday, City moved two points clear at the top thanks to the Clarets fixture with Bradford falling foul of the elements.
It played over the pinks and dusky rose, the burgundies and clarets and smoky blues of the chairs and rugs. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The beer has been specially devised to give it a distinctive claret colour and (for the more imaginative beer suppers) an amber-coloured head, hence resembling the club's home strip.
But Moses, and after him the high priests, were prophets of a more eminent place and degree in God's favour; and God Himself in express words declareth that to other prophets He spake in dreams and visions, but to His servant Moses in such manner as a man speaketh to his friend. Leviathan
Experiment has convinced me that the slight amount of alcohol I imbibe in my claret is a grateful stimulus to digestion. Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life
But he admits that just because he is not screaming claret and blue murder at his blundering players does not mean he is not furious inside. The Sun
Wine can follow you through your every mood: From champagne for celebration to mysterious, dusky clarets for contemplation, wine can be a constant travelling companion that allows you to wallow, or to rejoice.
To please all was somewhat difficult, and occasionally some of them were scarcely so polite as they should have been to a perplexed hostess, who could scarcely be expected to remember that Lieutenant A. had bespoken his sangaree an instant before Captain B. and his friends had ordered their claret cup. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
The extreme option would be to change the colour seasonally, with a bright yellow in the summer and a deep claret red in the winter. Times, Sunday Times
Although pupils at Belle Vue Boys school used to wear claret and amber uniforms, they are not the civic colours of Manningham or Bradford.
They were clareting until well past midnight
Di Canio, who will be out of contract with West Ham in June, wants to finish his playing days wearing the claret and blue.
My wife very hystericky and forever in a smock and declareth she would be dead and married life a delusion, the which opinion I take small issue with having my hands full of business and Lasselle forever at my heels with our affair of the mine not to speak of H. Nevil which waileth continually over how he was caught short in the month of June. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
He's got a mixture of clarets, red and white Burgundies, ports and Australian and South African wines.
The South African world number two, looking to lift the Claret Jug for the second time, was three under with eight holes to play after acing the par-three eighth.
An 1879 claret jug can be seen as a pared-down variant of an 1862 gothic silver and glass flagon designed by William Butterfield.
In spring, the desert and mountains erupt into a vibrant carpet of spring flowers, including bluebonnets, bi-colored mustards, and numerous species of cactus such as prickly pear, claret cup and rainbow.
W.lliam and I, and it being very hot weather I took my flageolette and played upon the leads in the garden, where Sir W. Pen came out in his shirt into his leads, and there we staid talking and singing, and drinking great drafts of claret, and eating botargo Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S.
Claret and red burgundy would cope equally well, but the former's austerity just gives it the edge. Times, Sunday Times
And for the more thirsty souls there were curiously compounded "cups:" hock and seltzer; claret and soda-water, fortified with curaçoa and flavoured artistically with burrage or sliced pine-apple. The Lovels of Arden
She finished her meal and changed again into fresh undergarments and a deep claret-colored full dress with a low-cut bodice and tight sleeves.
a robust claret
The doctor was a stickler for quality as well as quantity; the memory of his claret and beccafico days still clung to him, like the scent of the roses to Tom Moore's broken gallipot: he was curious in condiments, and whilst devouring, grumbled at the unseasoned viands of Tahiti. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
Only the rich had access to the very finest clarets of Bordeaux.
-- The word claret seems to me to be the same as the French word _clairet_, both adjective and substantive; as a substantive it means a low and cheap sort of _claret_, sold in France, and drawn from the barrel like beer in England; as an adjective it is a diminutive of _clair_, and implies that the wine is transparent. Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Chris, son of former Clarets manager and striker Frank, suffered a broken fibula, tibia and cruciate and ankle ligament damage.
The eggs are usually three in number, of a rosy or purplish white, sprinkled over rather numerously with deep claret or rufescent purple specks and spots. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
She sported a sophisticated attire of a white midriff top, violet vest, and short purple skirt with matching claret boots.
The dummy is wearing a shirt - claret slubbed silk, wide collar, double cuffs.
The term "claret", used to describe Bordeaux wines, may come from the French word "clairet".
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till it's toasted--or stale.
I once heard it said of one of them, that the extravasated claret in his phiz might well remind one, as Travels in England in 1782
But he admits that just because he is not screaming claret and blue murder at his blundering players does not mean he is not furious inside. The Sun
Cracking claret from a great vintage. Times, Sunday Times
When they had gone some distance from the gate, the city being surrounded by a valley with precipitous sides, Ullo pushed him down, shouting as he did so, “Behold your Ballomey who declareth himself son and brother of kings!” De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Episodes of Medieval Warfare from the History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours
Tie them in a variety of colours: especially red, orange, claret and shades of these.
Clarets are aged in stainless steel vats or oak casks, and are bottled only when they are considered ready for sale.
From deep claret to fruity merlot, burgundy colours are hot fashion news. The Sun
On the 12th May one nest contained three eggs of a rosy-white, thickly irrorated and blotched with purple or deep claret colour, and at the larger end confluently stained with dull purple, appearing as if beneath the shell. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Scandinavian punch made of claret and aquavit with spices and raisins and orange peel and sugar.
He will be fetching old claret from the cellar in no time! Jackson just wanted to say hello...
He's got a mixture of clarets, red and white Burgundies, ports and Australian and South African wines.
To make hippocras: Take a gallon of claret of white wine, and put therein four ounces of ginger, an ounce and a half of nutmegs, of cloves one quarter, of sugar four pound; let all this stand together in a pot at least twelve hours, then take it, and put it into a clean bag made for the purpose, so that the wine may come with good leisure from the spices. Hippocras « paper fruit
So home Sir W.lliam and I, and it being very hot weather I took my flageolette and played upon the leads in the garden, where Sir W. Pen came out in his shirt into his leads, and there we staid talking and singing, and drinking great drafts of claret, and eating botargo Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 11: June/July/August 1661
Whereof the one, in the words of the English chronicler, was "intrayled with anticke works, the old god of wine called Bacchus birlyng the wine, which by the conduits in the erthe ran to all people plenteously with red, white, and claret wine, over whose head was written in letters of Romayn in gold, 'Faicte bonne chere qui vouldra.' The Story of Rouen
Here, in this small, unpretentious rural backwater on the right bank of Bordeaux's Gironde river, was where those who favoured silky, supple clarets bought their wine.
He even puts in the occasional bottle of claret.
The bridesmaid wore a boned bodice and full-length skirt in claret red heavy satin, and a claret and gold feather headdress.
To make hippocras: Take a gallon of claret of white wine, and put therein four ounces of ginger, an ounce and a half of nutmegs, of cloves one quarter, of sugar four pound; let all this stand together in a pot at least twelve hours, then take it, and put it into a clean bag made for the purpose, so that the wine may come with good leisure from the spices. Hippocras « paper fruit
I've tasted many clarets of this level of quality with both venison and pheasant, and in every case it has proved an enjoyable accompaniment.
And further a certaine booke intituled Eulogium declareth, that the sayd Limpoldus duke of Austrich fell in displeasure with the bishop of Rome and died excommunicate the next yeere after, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Eat this slice of marchpane, it will help your digestion; then shall you be presented with a cup of claret hippocras, which is right healthful and stomachal. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Hope smiled and mimicked the Colonel's previous gesture including the picking up of his claret.
Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declareth all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate. Richard Geldard: In This Other America
Its chief reckons all patients can benefit from a decent glass of burgundy or claret. The Sun
a bucellas over there that 's old, and a tolerable claret, and a Port to be inquired for under the breath, in a mysteriously intimate tone of voice, as one says, "I know of your treasure, and the corner under ground where it lies. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
The roast partridge is served up moist, while roast saddle of venison comes velvety soft and the colour of claret. Times, Sunday Times
For a player of his gifts, the shock of the anointment is more easily absorbed than it would be for, say, Ben Curtis, the unknown rookie who raised the Claret Jug here in 2003. Rory McIlroy prepares for Open pressure cooker with stroll in the sun
Petrol blue or deep claret will brighten the skin. Times, Sunday Times
For the traditionalists, I have found several exceptional clarets at very competitive prices.
They are a proper club with a proper strip; more teams should wear claret and blue. Times, Sunday Times
A few châteaux produce and market the result as a '' third wine '', although most examples end up on merchants 'lists as' 'defrocked' 'claret under a generic name. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
This is a very fine claret, rounded, smooth and deliciously warm. Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
Take a whole rand or jole, scale it, and put it in an earthen stew-pan, put to it some claret, or white-wine, some wine-vinegar, The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
Moreover, thirsty visitors to Edinburgh in the 18th century would have been served not whisky or beer but a jug of claret, which was then regarded as our national drink.
Keeping needfully wide of the broad, claret-bespotted swath in the snow, the party started trailing back. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
And, once we'd had lunch, and a nap, I settled down with my paintbox and a bottle of claret to an afternoon and evening of watercolour experiments.
The pretty medieval hilltop right bank town of St Emilion produces pricey and prestigious clarets, so to get one this good and oozing with soft, juicy, cedary style for under £7 is a coup.
The effects of several clarifiers materials including DHG-1015, bentonite, PVPP, egg white, casein and glutin in white grape wine and claret were compared.
For amongst presumptions, there is none that so evidently declareth the author as doth the benefit of the action. Leviathan
And a real down-to-earth bloke, one of those you would buy a glass of decent claret. The Sun
Although pupils at Belle Vue Boys school used to wear claret and amber uniforms, they are not the civic colours of Manningham or Bradford.
The Clarets are among 18 seeded clubs in the northern section, where they will face an unseeded team on either August 23 or 24 with matches to be decided on the night.
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He pronounced the claret shilpit, and demanded brandy with great vociferation. Waverley
My husband always urged me to lay down wine and I tried it once - put a wine rack in the cellar, bought two mixed cases of goodish clarets and laid them out neatly.
The hottest hair colors for 1997 included deep clarets, rich blueberry and caramel.
The claret and amber stripes are as important a part of this city's identity as the town hall clock and the old trolleybuses.
The light outside the windows changed, from bright golden sunlight to a deep claret.
The port and claret were laid down in happier times, when cash was flush and planning for the future mattered.
The President was impressed with the claret and drained his glass in seconds.
Dress them with claret, white-wine, sack, or juyce of oranges, nutmeg, fine sugar, & a little salt, beat them well together in a fine clean dish, with carved sippets, and candied pistaches stuck in them. The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
For seeing the sovereign demandeth by force of a former law, and not by virtue of his power, he declareth thereby that he requireth no more than shall appear to be due by that law. Leviathan
`I know we're getting low on the Chablis, and I must make sure we have enough of the claret the old Canon likes. UNTO THE GRAVE
The colour range includes fawns, blues and claret.
In place of a glass of vintage claret, the normal refreshment was green tea at around four.
The crags were rich with colour, the cytisus waving its golden hair, the pelargonium blazing scarlet, beds of white stock wafting fragrance, violets scrambling over every soft bank of deep earth exhaling fragrance; roses, not many in flower, but their young leaves in masses of claret-red; wherever a ledge allowed it, there pansies of velvety blue and black and brown had been planted. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
( "Besides," he asks, sipping from a glass of arterial claret, "what's to cure?") Kurt Loder Reviews ‘Daybreakers’ » MTV Movies Blog
It is not that great wines were not made in Bordeaux in 2000, merely that in my tasting book, unlike my assessment of the ‘82 and ‘61 clarets, there are not enough of them.
Today, we prize dry red and white wines from round the world, while 100 years ago - although clarets and Burgundies were relished - real admiration was saved for naturally sweet wines: the Sauternes, Tokajis and Trockenbeerenausleses.
The wine offered was the 1982 Château Mouton Rothschild, retailing at £1,000 a bottle and generally regarded as one of the great clarets of the 20th century.
All those wines called in England clarets are the produce of the country round Bordeaux, or the Bordelais; but it is remarkable that there is no pure wine in France known by the name of claret, which is a corruption of clairet, a term that is applied there to any red or rose-coloured wine. The Book of Household Management
If you have only a fiver to spend on a good claret, this is the one to go for. Times, Sunday Times
In real terms this means the vinous equivalent of blue-chip stocks - classed-growth clarets, a very small number of burgundies and Rhone reds, some Italian reds and a handful of rare New World ‘boutique’ wines.
They are a proper club with a proper strip; more teams should wear claret and blue. Times, Sunday Times
The Times proclaimed that the prime cause why the Irish peasantry have been reduced to their present level must be sought for in the neglect and unthrift of past generations of claret - drinking, writ-despising, landlords. 15 Ed Lengel: "A 'Perverse and Ill-Fated People'"
Examples of complementary colors to a red color theme is burgundy, wine, claret red, dark pink, and purple.
In York a conduit ran all day with white wine and claret. GOD'S SECRETARIES: The Making of the King James Bible
Knowing he is on the verge of the Claret Jug, Levet sends his tee shot wide right, and then badly bunkers his second.
The rare but flavoursome petit verdot grape is becoming fashionable in Bordeaux where it is used to give top clarets the edge.
‘I suppose you will, Frank; but bacon won’t go down well after venison; and a course of claret is a bad preparative for potheen punch. The Kellys and the O'Kellys
Indeed many women not just Queens would wish to have such loyal friends as Marie-Antoinette, "Blessed is he that findeth a true friend, and that declareth justice to an ear that heareth. Archive 2008-04-20
He thought she looked maddeningly attractive, and emboldened by the fine claret, pressed his knee against hers under the table.
Each is claret red and guaranteed for 10 years. The Sun
The only wines that need decanting - just before serving, please - are true vintage and crusted ports, or old reds such as claret that have thrown a bitty or fine sediment that gets stuck in the teeth, and can muddy the taste.
We collapse in exhausted triumph with a glass of claret and a chunk of home-made cake. Times, Sunday Times
I like to see them wink at a glass of claret, as if they had an intimate acquaintance with it, and discuss a salmi — poor boys — it is only when they grow old that they know they know nothing of the science, when perhaps their conscience whispers them that the science is in itself little worth, and that a leg of mutton and content is as good as the dinners of pontiffs. The History of Pendennis
He also hopes to exploit the Burke's name by reproducing it on the labels of clarets, burgundies and champagnes.
Fresh hose a clean shirt, a cup of claret, a meat pie and a manchet loaf!
He had not the courage either to give his guests the excellent native claret where they had formerly enjoyed imported champagne or to appear a "piker" in the eyes of the far from democratic family butler. The Sisters-In-Law
The quality of its wines can vary from light, fruity, serviceable clarets to the finest first growths capable of ageing for a century or more.
He played more than 170 games for the Clarets, with his only senior goal coincidentally coming against City in a 7-2 drubbing in January 1998.
Critics say he is a mercenary and a poor trainer, but there have been flashes of class in his brief appearances in claret and amber.
It's almost like claret wine, except thicker like syrup, drying, coagulating, congealing into a tacky mess on the floor.
Château Les Ormes de Pez, Cru Bourgeois, St-Estèphe, Bordeaux 1995 £35, MajesticFrom the same stable as the very smart bordeaux-classed growth Château Lynch-Bages, this is a perfectly mature Christmas claret from a chateau that regularly outshines its relatively lowly cru bourgeois ranking. The 20 best Christmas red wines
‘They can wear rich, jewel-like colours such as claret, emerald or very, very deep creams,’ she advises.
George was still drinking claret when she returned to the dining-room, and made no signs of moving. Vanity Fair
In anticipation of the hot weather, I had laid in a large stock of raspberry vinegar, which, properly managed, helps to make a pleasant drink; and there was a great demand for sangaree, claret, and cider cups, the cups being battered pewter pots. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Sheridan for dinner, Colman for supper; Sheridan for claret or port, but Colman for every thing, from the madeira and champagne at dinner, the claret with a _layer_ of _port_ between the glasses, up to the punch of the night, and down to the grog, or gin and water, of daybreak; -- all these I have threaded with both the same. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
The roast partridge is served up moist, while roast saddle of venison comes velvety soft and the colour of claret. Times, Sunday Times
Comrade Turnbull had been banished to a labour camp known as the "House of Lords," where harsh and brutal metaphors are believed to be used, and where inmates, clad only in ermine, are forced to live on a diet of venison and claret. Archive 2007-03-01
Claret lovers will enthuse over this traditional style that delivers blackfruits, pencil shavings, cigar boxes threaded with ripe tannins, all backed by firm acidity.
But God declareth his laws three ways; by the dictates of natural reason, by revelation, and by the voice of some man to whom, by the operation of miracles, he procureth credit with the rest. Leviathan
Consequently too many of the 2002 clarets I tasted had unpleasant bitter green tannins, hollow watery palates and dull finishes.
Matthew's character Neville and Harry Potter are both in Gryffyndor house whose team colours are claret and amber.
It just seems to depend on whether you wear claret or white with your blue. Times, Sunday Times
A highly agreeable lunch was had, the claret was good and the conversation jovial. Times, Sunday Times
Over the next few weeks the Clarets will have a hectic schedule with plenty of midweek games as they continue to chase the play-off dream.
When you have gone a couple of miles, make a circumbendibus back again to the night-house frequented by your set, and relate the adventure, with the same voice and countenance as a broker quotes the price of stocks; then order a cool bottle of claret with the air of a man who has done a meritorious action! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
Nor do I pack a fancy claret or burgundy. Times, Sunday Times
I won't go as far as wearing a claret and blue scarf, but I will be urging them on to win.
Walter, for I know he has a thousand things, and I a thousand nothings, to do; but I hope to see him at Abbotsford before very long, and I will sweat his claret for him, though Italian abstemiousness has made my brain but a shilpit concern for a Scotch sitting 'inter pocula.' Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
Despite his miss, Sheringham was still one of the better players in claret and blue, achieved, as always, with great economy of effort.
The colour range includes fawns, blues and claret.
His drinks cellar would have been stocked with vast quantities of strong beer and small beer (a weaker brew), as well as a range of wines such as claret and canary.
Accountants reckon that while most of us know the price of turbot or fillet steak, few of us know the price of an obscure Bordeaux claret.
Almost every piece of pasteboard from programmes to menus around the Old Course featured Lawrie holding the Claret Jug aloft after his Carnoustie triumph.
Without a home win from their opening three matches, the Clarets are already slipping behind the other promotion hopefuls. The Sun
Petrol blue or deep claret will brighten the skin. Times, Sunday Times
Hunter question) I am not any "forrarder," as the farmer said after his third bottle of Gladstone claret. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
St Hugh's provided stern opposition and plenty of character but could not cope with the extra ability found amongst the team in claret and blue.
When Sergio Garcia first teed it up in the British Open as a teenager there seemed no way his name wouldn't someday be inscribed on the claret jug. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Howard sips claret from a picnic hamper as he corrects other people's mistakes.
A "grandfather" provision allows wineries already using the term claret to continue to do so, but it must now conform to "the trade understanding of such class and type. The Seattle Times
Sometimes they are dull white with brick-red spots openly disposed in form of a rude ring at the larger end; at other times the spots are rufescent claret, with duller indistinct ones appearing through the shell; others are of a deep carneous hue, clouded and coarsely blotched with deep rufescent claret; while again some are faint carneous with large irregular blotches of rufous clay with duller ones beneath the shell. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
His larder is well supplied with poultry and wild fowl, his cellar contains "lashings," not only of "Parliament and pot," or "John Jamieson" and illicit "potheen," but of port and sherry, claret and champagne. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
The claret jug is an admirable specimen of one of the best Etruscan models, most graceful in outline, and yet presenting an unmistakeable appearance of solidity.
In the 17th century, sack (like sweet sherry), claret, or orange juice were used in eating possets.
Or to the man sipping a fine claret in first class on his way to Mustique? Times, Sunday Times
There is a vast range of specific color truths: ripe bananas are yellow; certain sunsets are golden; claret wine is claret red and so on.
One wine writer of the old school refused to partner his great vintage clarets with smelly French cheeses, believing the pair to clash horribly.
He gave the people another hhd of claret & some sugar, & to the Cap't a quarter cask of wine for his own drinking, also 6 lengths of old junk. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
A huge pewter measuring pot reamed with excellent claret.
Above his soft, expansive belly, a silver tie tack anchored a shiny claret necktie to his cheap white shirt. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
Cracking claret from a great vintage. Times, Sunday Times
Clarett ran two 40-yard dashes, the official times of which have yet to come out.
One wine writer of the old school refused to partner his great vintage clarets with smelly French cheeses, believing the pair to clash horribly.
Petrol blue or deep claret will brighten the skin. Times, Sunday Times
The drop earrings, tomahawk, knife and scabbard, and bow and arrows vie for the viewer's attention with the striking claret color of the headdress, which matches both the fringe of the frock coat and one of the shoulder sashes.
He was five feet six inches in height, of thick set, muscular figure and dressed in a short claret coloured coat and grey striped trousers.
The journey continued onwards without much more being spoken as William soon slipped into a deep sleep induced by the claret.
The parson drew from his pocket a leg of the fox they had killed that day, and, stinking, filthy, and bloody as it was, squeezed and stirred it in a four-handled tyg of claret. The Yeoman Adventurer
The term "claret", used to describe Bordeaux wines, may come from the French word "clairet".
Bred from strains of Hatch, Claret, Black, Round Head and White Hackel for height, strength, speed and "gameness," or the ability to stay and fight instead of surrendering, a prize fighting cock may sell for as much as five thousand dollars. Cockfighting - Chicken Soup For The Soul
They are a proper club with a proper strip; more teams should wear claret and blue. Times, Sunday Times
They look particularly wonderful in deep colours such as aubergine and claret, and are amazing in a Venetian red. Times, Sunday Times
The term "claret", used to describe Bordeaux wines, may come from the French word "clairet".
Pre-Raphaelite, bias-cut gowns in claret, black and silver devore velvet grazed the floor over lace-up, spike-heeled velvet boots, and were accessorised with ornate, tribal neck-pieces, and opened down the back to reveal gleaming metal bodices beneath. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The shirt will be predominantly claret and amber stripes on the front with an amber hoop around the top and a black collar.

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