Middle English Dictionary Entry
claret n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | claret n.(1) Also cleret. |
| Etymology | OF claret adj.; cp. vin claret. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. clare n.(1).
1.
(a) Clary; (b) med. clary containing medicinal herbs; also, a clarified infusion of medicinal herbs (without wine).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)317b/b : Clarette [L Claretum] is y made of wyne and hony and swete spicery..clerete draweþ of þe wyne might..of þe spicery good smelle..of þe hony swetnesse.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)658/26 : Hoc claretum: clarett.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)200 : Clarett and Creette clergyally rennen.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)172/12 : Att þe brydall..he sulde hafe gude wyne enogh, & clarett.
- (1473-4) Doc.in HMC Rep.9 App.1143a : Pro iibus lagenis vini vocati Claret.
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)330/303 : Minglers of wyne in the nighte..blendinge against daye lighte: suche newe made clarrytte is cause..of sicknes.
b
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)189a/b : Make þerof [various spices] a powdre, & wiþ two pound of hony and wiþ þre potelles [of wine] make þerof a clarete [L claretum].
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)34/29 : Tak þe rutes of pion..fenkall..percell & anete sede ana, & do all hale in a newe pott with water ouer þe fire & welle þam wele to þe third part be wellid in & make a clarett þer-of & drynk it withowtten wyn.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)127/19,24 : Late it rennen thorow a cloth, till it bee as cleer as claret..Þat he ȝewe nowght þis claret to ony þat be woundyd in þe heed, for in swyche woundys wyn and hony ben suspecte.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. claret.