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Noun
/ˈklarit/,
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clarets, plural;
  1. A red wine from Bordeaux, or wine of a similar character made elsewhere

  2. A deep purplish-red color

  1. a dark purplish-red color
  2. drink claret; "They were clareting until well past midnight"
  3. dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine
  4. (The Clarets) Burnley Football Club , nicknamed The Clarets by fans, are a professional English football club based in Burnley, Lancashire. They were founder members of The Football League in 1888. Rec.Sport. ...
  5. To dream of drinking claret, denotes you will come under the influence of ennobling association. To dream of seeing broken bottles of claret, portends you will be induced to commit immoralities by the false persuasions of deceitful persons.
  6. Old-fashioned English term for red wines from the Bordeaux region.
  7. Quaint term for a red Bordeaux, still used in England (especially by MICHAEL BROADBENT) and revived in recent years by such American producers as Francis Coppola and Su Hua Newton, who trot out “claret” even though their wines aren’t from Bordeaux.
  8. Is a British term that was adopted by Australia to describe a dry red wine, resembling the characteristics of the French wine Bordeaux.  Sometimes Australian 'Claret' was predominately Cabernet Sauvignon but not always so. ...
  9. What the red wines similar to those of Bordeaux in France were commonly called until recent years whereby mimicking French wines has been outlawed.
  10. The pale pink clairet became very popular in England in the 12th Century. But now the term claret is applied to all Bordeaux reds.
  11. A light and fruity red wine produced in the region of Bordeaux.
  12. Claret is the English name for Bordeaux red wine. The name comes from the French word Clairet – the dark Rosé wine that was once exported to the UK from the Bordeaux region. The French do not use the term Claret.
  13. Fruity, light red wine whose fermentation process includes very slight maceration of the grape skins, best to drink young.
  14. An English term to describe the Cabernet-based wines of the Haut-Médoc.
  15. Anglo-Saxon term for any red wine of Bordeaux.
  16. a dry red wine from Bordeaux France.
  17. French red wine; figuratively, blood.
  18. A red Bordeaux in British parlance.
  19. the British word for Bordeaux.
  20. Medium and light red wine
  21. the name the English use when referring to the red wines of Bordeaux.