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Gladstone claret

English edit

Etymology edit

After William Ewart Gladstone, who reduced the duty on French wines.

Noun edit

Gladstone claret (countable and uncountable, plural Gladstone clarets)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Cheap claret.

References edit

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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