1
: a red Bordeaux wine
also
: a similar wine produced elsewhere
2
: a dark purplish red
claret
adjective
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While his club-mates traipse from the bus in flip-flops and trainers, Cash is dressed from head to toe in Peaky Blinders attire; shiny shoes, black leather gloves, claret tie, grey waistcoat and, of course, the signature knee-length overcoat and newsboy cap.
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Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2026
Much like the other two Vista hotels—one in Como city, another in Verona—the bathrooms are improbably chic, outfitted in slabs of marble in clarets, undersea greens, or the blue-gray-gold multicolor seen in astrophotography.
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
Scottie Scheffler won his second major of the year—and fourth of his career—Sunday, claiming The Open Championship’s claret jug with a four-shot margin.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 July 2025
And now comes a big opportunity for Lowry to reclaim that claret jug.
—Doug Ferguson, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2024
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Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2026
Much like the other two Vista hotels—one in Como city, another in Verona—the bathrooms are improbably chic, outfitted in slabs of marble in clarets, undersea greens, or the blue-gray-gold multicolor seen in astrophotography.
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
Scottie Scheffler won his second major of the year—and fourth of his career—Sunday, claiming The Open Championship’s claret jug with a four-shot margin.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 July 2025
And now comes a big opportunity for Lowry to reclaim that claret jug.
—Doug Ferguson, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2024
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“Claret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/claret. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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