claret cup
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of claret cup
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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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
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
At many gatherings a special table is supplied for the gentlemen, where soda-water, claret cup, and sometimes wines are served.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
The lunch was real elegant, too, with the oysters and the claret cup.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
Lady Staines was the only person who noticed the arrival of two telegrams—they were taken to Charles and James, who were at that moment in the refreshment tent opposite the claret cup.
From The Dark Tower by J. H. Gardner Soper
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