Middle English Dictionary Entry
clarẹ̄ n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | clarẹ̄ n.(1) Also clarei(e, clarre, clarri(e, clerie, klarri. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. claret.
1.
A drink made of wine (or ale) spiced, sweetened with honey, and clarified by straining, clary; ~ bagge, a bag for straining clary.
Associated quotations
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1728 : Biforn hem com..Pyment to drinke, and god clare [rime: plente].
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)3123 : Þer was piment & clare.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1471 : He had yeue his gailler drynke so Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn With nercotikes and opye.
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5265/26 : Pro clarebagges per ipsum emptis.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1843 : He taketh a sop in fyn clarree [rime: he].
- ?a1400 Guy(1) (Sln 1044)625/52 : A mayde brouȝt..Þe clare in þe bugle horn.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.m.5.10 : They coude make no pyment or clarree.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)35 : Take clareye, & caste þer-on in maner of a Syryppe..caste þis Syryp þer-on..instede of Clerye.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.101 : They hadde ȝit no queynt craft..clarry [vrr. clarey, clarre, clarraye, klarri] for to make ne pyment.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)92/243 : To make clarre or pyment: Take a galon of good clene wyne that is swete and a pound of puryd hony..and put ther in..canell..gynger..clows..galyngale made all in to powders and..put it in to a bagg and let thi licours ren thorow till the moost vertue be owte..thou myght make also of good ale.
- c1460 Ipom.(3) (Lngl 257)339/31 : Wenes thou..that thou be now at Palern in Cecile, drinking clarrie and othre strong wynes?
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)120 : The namys of swete wynes..pyment..Greke..Clarey whan it is newe.
- c1450(?a1400) Chestre Launfal (Clg A.2)344 : Mete and drynk þey hadde afyn, Pyement, clare, and Reynysch wyn.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1453) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.138 : [A remnant of] Clarrey [left in a barrel, 6s 8d].
Note: New form: Also..clarrei.
Note: Since 'Clarrey' is not italicized in the text (as are other legitimate Middle English terms) it is uncertain whether 'Clarrey' is actually a Middle English form. The OED's entry for MED's clarẹ̄ n.(1) is clary n.(1), although this quot. and form are not used.
Note: The list of variant spellings in the form section is incomplete and needs revision to accord with standards of later volumes of the MED.--notes per MLL
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. clary.