Chapter Clench to Cliquot of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Clio was one of the nine Muses, the inventress of historical and heroic poetry.
   Clio. Addison is so called because his papers in the Spectator are signed by one of the four letters in this word, probably the initial letters of Chelsea, London, Islington, Office. (See Notarica)
    See Professor Morley's “Introduction to the Spectator, ” on the subject.

Clipper A fast-sailing ship.

“We shall have to catch the Aurora, and she has a name for being a clipper.”- A. C. Doyle: The Sign of Four, chap. x.

   She's a clipper. Said of a stylish or beautiful woman. A first-class craft.

Clipping Pace (A). Very fast. A clipper is a fast-sailing vessel.

“Leaving Bolus Head, we scudded on at a clipping pace, and the skiff yielded so much to the breeze that Bury said we must reef the mainsail.”- W. S. Trench: Realities of Irish Life, chap. x

Cliquot (of Punch celebrity). A nickname of Frederick William IV. of Prussia called from his fondness for champagne (1795, 1840-1861)