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claree

claree noun: a drink made of wine, honey, and spices.

Noun

claree

  1. (archaic) A drink made of wine, honey, and spices.
    • 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.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
    • At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree.2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 3

Forms of claree

alternative formclarree
alternative formclarrey

Questions about claree

What does claree mean?
Claree means a drink made of wine, honey, and spices.
What part of speech is claree?
Claree is a noun.

Words near claree in the dictionary

  1. Clare Hall
  2. clare-obscure
  3. Clareburt
  4. Clareburts
  5. Clarecastle
  6. claree
  7. Claremonster
  8. Claremonsters
  9. Claremont
  10. Claremont Meadows
  11. Claremore

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