claree

• clarree, clarrey

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claree

1. (archaic) A drink made of wine, honey, and spices.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 3:

     At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree.

• Carlee, Cereal, alerce, cereal, cleare, relace

claree

1. inflection of clarear:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

claree (plural clarees)

1. A drink made of wine, honey, and spices
   • c. 1300, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:

     He dranke hippocras, clarre, and vernage / Of spices hot, to increase his courage.

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   • c. 1300, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:

     Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn, / With nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn.

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claree

1. inflection of clarear:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative