sorbet
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bɪt, sɔrˈbeɪ; noun
sherbet ( defs 1, 3 ).
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| —n | |
| 1. | a water ice made from fruit juice, egg whites, milk, etc |
| 2. | a US word for sherbet |
| [C16: from French, from Old Italian sorbetto, from Turkish şerbet, from Arabic sharbah a drink] | |
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Sorbet
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
sorbet
1585, "cooling drink of fruit juice and water," from Fr. sorbet, probably from It. sorbetto, from Turk. serbet (see sherbet). Meaning "frozen dessert, sherbet" first recorded 1864.
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Example sentences
She combines the chopped cherries with pomegranate juice and a splash of vodka for a quick-fix sorbet.
Ingredients for cream of lettuce soup, risotto with radicchio, and peach sorbet are handpicked from the organic kitchen garden.
Dessert items include hot peanut pudding, peanut and pecan pudding, almond pudding and sorbet varieties.
Put the sorbet and gin in a food processor or blender and blend until well combined but still slushy.
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