claree

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1. archaicA drink made of wine, honey, and spices.

   At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree.

   2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 3

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   I drink but two thirds of a pint in the whole day, which is less than the soberest of my countrymen drink of claree at every meal.

   1762 November 13, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letter CCCLXIII, written from Bath, quoted in 1787, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 4, edition 9, page 182