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English
Etymology
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Noun
claree
- (archaic) A drink made of wine, honey, and spices.
- 1762 November 13, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letter CCCLXIII, written from Bath, quoted in 1787, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 4, edition 9, page 182:
- I drink but two thirds of a pint in the whole day, which is less than the soberest of my countrymen drink of claree at every meal.
2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 3:At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree.
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
claree
- inflection of clarear:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Middle English
Noun
claree (plural clarees)
- A drink made of wine, honey, and spices
c. 1300, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:He dranke hippocras, clarre, and vernage / Of spices hot, to increase his courage.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
c. 1300, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn, / With nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Spanish
Verb
claree
- inflection of clarear:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative