claret cup
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of claret cup
First recorded in 1875–80
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On five ten-inch records Harry Horlick's orchestra evokes a vanished world of kid gloves, claret cup and candlelight.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was given claret cup and feathery sandwiches and asked questions and given information.
From Robin by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The table was laid for two, and appetizing dishes of cold food, salad and fruit were spread out on the dresser and sideboard, with iced champagne and claret cup.
From Who Cares? a story of adolescence by Cosmo Hamilton
She is great in cheese and bitter beer, in claret cup and still champagne, but she despises the puerilities of sweets or of effervescing wines.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
As a matter of fact, I’ve merely put in some hours of indifferent dancing, drunk some badly-made claret cup, and listened to an enormous amount of laborious light conversation.
From The Toys of Peace, and other papers by Saki
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