Gladstone claret

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Gladstone claret (countable and uncountable, plural Gladstone clarets)

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

References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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