claret: [14] Claret was originally a ‘lightcoloured wine’ – pale red (virtually what we would now call rosé), but also apparently yellowish. The word comes ultimately from Latin clārus ‘clear’; from this was derived the verb clārāre, whose past participle was used in the phrase vīnum clārātum ‘clarified wine’. This passed into Old French as vin claret.
Modern French clairet preserves the word’s early sense ‘pale wine, rosé’, but in English by the later 17th century seems to have been transferred to red wine, and since in those days the vast majority of red wine imported into Britain came from Southwest France, and Bordeaux in particular, it was not long before claret came to mean specifically ‘red Bordeaux’. => clear
claret (n.)
mid-15c., "light-colored wine," from Old French (vin) claret "clear (wine), light-colored red wine" (also "sweetened wine," a sense in English from late 14c.), from Latin clarus "clear" (see clear (adj.)). Narrowed English meaning "red wine of Bordeaux" (excluding burgundy) first attested 1700. Used in pugilistic slang for "blood" from c. 1600.
雙語例句
1. The term "claret", used to describe Bordeaux wines, may come from the French word "clairet".
用來指稱波爾多葡萄酒的詞claret可能源于法語單詞clairet。
來自柯林斯例句
2. This south-west region of France is the home of claret.
法國西南部的這個地區是干紅葡萄酒的產地。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Burne - Wilke's good claret and Pug's presence in time helped matter.
勃納 -- 沃克的上好的紅葡萄酒和帕格的在場,終于使情況有所好轉.
來自辭典例句
4. He has put down a good supply of port and claret.
他已經儲藏了很多紫葡萄酒和紅葡萄酒.
來自辭典例句
5. I put down a couple of cases of claret last year.