Gladstone claret

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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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