Birmingham.
_Claret_ (Vol. vii., p. 237.).--The word claret seems to me to be the same
as the French word _clairet_, both adjective and substantive; as a
substantive it means a low and cheap sort of _claret_, sold in France, and
drawn from the barrel like beer in England; as an adjective it is a
diminutive of _clair_, and implies that the wine is transparent.