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fraise

[freyz]
–noun
1. Fortification. a defense consisting of pointed stakes projecting from the ramparts in a horizontal or an inclined position.
2. a ruff worn around the neck in the 16th century.
3. a woman's embroidered scarf worn with ends crossed on the chest and pinned with a brooch or the like, popular in the early 19th century.
4. Horology. a cutting tool for correcting inaccuracies in the teeth of a timepiece wheel.

Origin:
1765–75; < F, deriv. of fraiser to frizzle, curl < Pr frezar ≪ Gmc; cf. OE frīs curled

fraise

[frez]
–noun, plural fraises [frez] . French.
1. strawberry.
2. crème de fraise.
3. a brandy distilled from strawberries.
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fraise   (frāz)   
n.  
  1. A defensive barrier of pointed inclined stakes or barbed wire.

  2. A ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century.


[French, from Old French, mesentery (from its pleated shape), from (feves) frasees, shelled (beans), from the resemblance between the mesentery and the peel surrounding individual broad beans, from Latin (faba) frēsa, ground (bean), feminine past participle of frendere, to crush; see frenum.]
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: fraise
Pronunciation: 'frAz
Function: noun
: a surgical burr shaped like a cone or hemisphere
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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