claret cup

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   a punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit

   Broadercup

Questions about claret cup

What does claret cup mean?

claret cup means "a punch made of claret and brandy with lemon juice and sugar and sometimes sherry or curacao and fresh fruit".

Is claret cup a common word?

claret cup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.