Clairet

I am perhaps not quite correct in stating, that the word is always used as an adjective; for we sometimes find _clairet_ used alone as ❋ Various (N/A)

The name is never applied but to red wines; and it is very doubtful whether it takes its appellation from any place, being always used adjectively -- "_vin clairet_," not _vin_ de ❋ Various (N/A)

-- The word _claret_ is evidently derived directly from the French word _clairet_; which is used, even at the present day, as a generic name for the "_vins ordinaires_," of a light and thin quality, grown in the south of France. ❋ Various (N/A)

Night arrives; they portion out to us a dish of boiled meat dotted black with a few lentils, they pour us out brimming cups of coco-clairet, and I undress, enchanted at stretching myself out in a bed without keeping my clothes and my shoes on. ❋ Unknown (1877)

Aimez-vous a boire un coup d'excellent Bourgogne ou de clairet? rien que celui-ci Goddam. ❋ Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 (1876)

All those wines called in England clarets are the produce of the country round Bordeaux, or the Bordelais; but it is remarkable that there is no pure wine in France known by the name of claret, which is a corruption of clairet, a term that is applied there to any red or rose-coloured wine. ❋ Isabella Mary (1861)