subs. (common).—1.  A kind of claret-cup: claret, sugar, spice, soda-water, and ice. [Invented at the Duke of Beaufort’s seat of the same name.]

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  1845.  B. DISRAELI, Sybil; or, The Two Nations, I. i. Waiter, bring me a tumbler of Badminton. Ibid. (1870), Lothair, xxx. Soothed or stimulated by fragrant cheroots or beakers of BADMINTON.

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  1853.  WHYTE-MELVILLE, Digby Grand, ix. An enormous measure of BADMINTON, that grateful compound.

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  1868.  OUIDA, Under Two Flags, ix. A great silver flagon of BADMINTON, with which he was ending his breakfast.

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  2.  (pugilistic).—Blood: cf. CLARET, ROSY, etc.

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