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.
例文
1. The term " claret "、used to describe Bordeaux wines、may come from the French word "clairet ".
ボルドーワインを指す言葉 claret は、フランス語のclairetに由来する可能性があります。
2.This south-west region of France is the home of claret .
フランス南西部のこの地域はドライワインの産地です。
3.Burne-Wilke 's good claret and Pug 's presence in time helped matter.
ボナー?ウォーカーの極上の赤ワインとパグのフィールドが、ようやく状況を好転させた。
4.He has put down a good supply of port and claret .
紫ワインや赤ワインを多く貯蔵している。
5.I put down a couple of cases of claret last year.