|
|
Definition of Claret cup
1. Noun. A punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Claret Cup
Literary usage of Claret cup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and by John Clark Ridpath (1899)
"In 1848 he published Biscuits and Grog, The claret cup, and Hearts are Trumps;
in 1849, King Dobbs; and in 1850 Singleton Fontenoy, a novel of sea-life, ..."
2. Beverages and Sauces of Colonial Virginia, 1607-1907 by L. S. F. (Laura Simkins Fitchett), L. S. F. (1906)
"GOVERNOR BERKELEY'S claret cup "Then stand to your glasses steady, Here's a health
to those we prize, Here's a toast to the dead already, And here's to the ..."
3. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and ...by John Clark Ridpath by John Clark Ridpath (1898)
"In 1848 he published Biscuits and Grog, The claret cup, and Hearts are Trumps;
in 1849, ... claret cup ..."
4. The Successful Housekeeper: A Manual of Universal Application, Especially by Milon W. Ellsworth, Tinnie Ellsworth (1882)
"claret cup. Put into a bowl three bottles of soda water, and one bottle of claret.
Pare a lemon very thin and grate a nutmeg; add to these, in a jug, ..."
Other Resources:
