Adjective: claret
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more claret |
| Superlative | most claret |
Sample Sentences
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Dhondt drives a claret 1927 Bugatti Royale Type 41, a real spanker, Sixsmith. [2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:]
Adjectives inflected like claret
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English claret, from Middle French claret, from Medieval Latin clārātum vīnum, from clārus. Compare tent (“Spanish red wine”), also from color. Doublet of clairet.
Verbs referencing "claret"
French Adjectives
clairet.