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claret
English
Etymology
From Middle English claret, from Middle French claret, from Medieval Latin claratum vinum, from Latin clarus.
Compare tent (“Spanish red wine”), also from color
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?klæ??t/, /?klæ??t/ IPA(key): /kl????t/
- (hyperforeign) IPA(key): /?klæ??/, /?klæ??/, /kl????/
Noun
claret (countable and uncountable, plural clarets)
- (chiefly Britain) A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.
- The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)
- The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.
- The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)
- A deep purplish-red colour, like that of the wine.
- (Britain, colloquial) Blood.
Synonyms
- (wine): traditional dry red (Australia)
Translations
See also
- (regional wine): hock, sack, tent
Adjective
claret (comparative more claret, superlative most claret)
- Of a deep purplish-red colour, like that of claret.
Derived terms
- claret cup
- claret-coloured
Verb
claret (third-person singular simple present clarets, present participle clareting, simple past and past participle clareted)
- (intransitive, archaic) To drink claret.
- 1814, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
- We clareted and champagned till two—then supped, and finished with a kind of regency punch composed of madeira, brandy, and green tea, no real water being admitted therein. There was a night for you!
- 1814, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
References
- Paper from the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia on generic wine terminology
- Oxford Companion to Wine – Claret
References
Anagrams
- arclet, cartel, lacert, rectal
Latin
Verb
cl?ret
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of cl?r?
Middle English
Alternative forms
- clerat, clerote, cleret
Etymology
Old French claret, from Medieval Latin claratum (vinum).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?klar?t/
Noun
claret (plural clarets)
- clary (Salvia sclarea)
- clary water
References
- “claret, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Adjective
claret
- (referring to wine) pink, pink-purple, light
Descendants
- English: claret
References
- “claret, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
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purple
English
Etymology
From Middle English purple, purpel, purpur, from Old English purple, purpuren (“purple”), taken from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (porphúra, “purple fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Cognate with Dutch purper (“purple”), German Purpur (“purple; crimson”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (paurpura, “purple”), Lithuanian purpurin? (“magenta”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??(?).p?l/
- (General American) enPR: pûrp?l, IPA(key): /?p?p?l/
- Rhymes: -??(?)p?l
Noun
purple (plural purples)
- A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
- (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
- Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
- (by extension) Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings.
- 1776-1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- He was born in the purple.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29:
- The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple.
- 1776-1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
- The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
- 2005, Tipi Paul, Wanna Smoke?: The Adventures of a Storyteller, page 14
- "Sure, some purple Owlsley."
- 2010, Mark Arax, West of the West, page 221
- “Purple smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real purple. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours.
- 2011, Danielle Santiago, Allure of the Game, page 148
- She preferred to smoke some good purple, but getting high wasn't an option.
- 2005, Tipi Paul, Wanna Smoke?: The Adventures of a Storyteller, page 14
- (medicine) Purpura.
- Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
- Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
- A cardinalate.
- (slang, US) Ellipsis of purple drank
Translations
Adjective
purple (comparative purpler or more purple, superlative purplest or most purple)
- Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.
- Synonym: (literary, poetic) purpureal
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- (US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support, as in purple state, purple city.
- 2010, Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada, University of Nevada Press, ?ISBN, page 162:
- In the end, Nevada remained the quintessential purple state. On the maps that television used to illustrate political trends, Republican states were red and Democratic blue. Nevada blended the colors. It had a bright blue core in the heart of Las Vegas, surrounded by a purple suburban belt. Most of the rest of the state was bright red, especially in the rural counties.
- 2010, Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada, University of Nevada Press, ?ISBN, page 162:
- (in Netherlands and Belgium) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
- Imperial; regal.
- Blood-red; bloody.
- (of language) Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
- (motor racing, of a sector, lap, etc.) Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
Antonyms
- (having purple as its colour): nonpurple
Translations
Verb
purple (third-person singular simple present purples, present participle purpling, simple past and past participle purpled)
- (intransitive) To turn purple in colour.
- 1999, David Edelstein, In Nomine: Corporeal Player's Guide, Steve Jackson Games, ?ISBN, page 8:
- The gang leader purpled and raised his gun.
- 1999, David Edelstein, In Nomine: Corporeal Player's Guide, Steve Jackson Games, ?ISBN, page 8:
- (transitive) To dye purple.
- (transitive) To clothe in purple.
Derived terms
See also
- purpure
- rhodopsin
- secondary color
Anagrams
- Ruppel, lupper, pulper, repulp
Middle English
Noun
purple (uncountable)
- Alternative form of purpel
Adjective
purple
- Alternative form of purpel
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