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.
双语例句
1. The term "claret", used to describe Bordeaux wines, may come from the French word "clairet".
用来指称波尔多葡萄酒的词claret可能源于法语单词clairet。
来自柯林斯例句
2. This south-west region of France is the home of claret.
法国西南部的这个地区是干红葡萄酒的产地。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Burne - Wilke's good claret and Pug's presence in time helped matter.
勃纳 -- 沃克的上好的红葡萄酒和帕格的在场,终于使情况有所好转.
来自辞典例句
4. He has put down a good supply of port and claret.
他已经储藏了很多紫葡萄酒和红葡萄酒.
来自辞典例句
5. I put down a couple of cases of claret last year.
