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Claret cup

noun
1.
A punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit.





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"Claret cup" Quotes from Famous Books



... should be within the reach of everybody. Nothing could be more innocent, more hygienic, more important to the social welfare. But the way of the people on such occasions is mostly to drink large quantities of beer, or, among the more luxurious classes, iced claret cup, lemon squashes, and the like. To take a moral illustration, the will to suppress misconduct and secure efficiency in work is general and salutary; but the notion that the best and only effective way is by complaining, scolding, punishing, and revenging ...
— Getting Married • George Bernard Shaw
... Endymion's kindness, had now got into the Treasury, and was quite fashionable, had the run of the House, and made himself marvellously useful, while St. Barbe, who had become by mistake a member of the Conservative Club, drank his frequent claret cup every Saturday evening at Lady Montfort's receptions with many pledges to the welfare ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli


Words linked to "Claret cup" :   brandy, cup


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