English
Alternative spellings
clarree
Noun
claree
- A drink made of wine, honey and spices.
Quotations
1300?: He dranke hippocras, clarre, and vernage / Of spices hot, to increase his courage — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale, The Canterbury Tales
1300?: Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn,/ With nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knyghtes TaleThe Canterbury Tales
2003: At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree — Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, 2003, page 3
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