sherbet
Sometimes sher·bert [shur-burt] /ˈʃɜr bɜrt/ . a frozen dessert made with sweetened fruit juice or purée, typically containing milk or cream, with egg white or gelatin often added.
a traditional Middle Eastern drink made of sweetened fruit juice diluted with water and ice.
Chiefly British. a sweetened powder moistened in the mouth and eaten as a fizzy confection or mixed with water to make a fizzy drink.
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How to use sherbet in a sentence
The two have a terrible row about orange sherbet, and Don leaves Megan in a Howard Johnson parking lot.
But the beauty of it is that it has the best qualities of both desserts: creamy like a sherbet, refreshing like a sorbet.
My new acquaintance called for a hookah and sherbet, and in a few moments we were on excellent terms.
Confessions of a Thug | Philip Meadows TaylorThere was a little table at hand; on it stood a rock-crystal goblet and a silver cooler filled with snow-water and rose sherbet.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisAlmost immediately she rentered, in each hand a silver cup, the cups identical, each filled with violet sherbet.
God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
Then in summer, if you can get ice cheaply, you can have fruits made into sherbet or frozen as they are.
Living on a Little | Caroline French BentonThere we would sit sipping sherbet, and cracking nuts, among which salted watermelon seeds figured prominently.
War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit Roosevelt
British Dictionary definitions for sherbet
/ (ˈʃɜːbət) /
a fruit-flavoured slightly effervescent powder, eaten as a sweet or used to make a drink: lemon sherbet
US and Canadian a water ice made from fruit juice, egg whites, milk, etc: Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): sorbet
Australian slang beer
a cooling Oriental drink of sweetened fruit juice
Southern African informal a euphemistic word for shit taboo
Origin of sherbet
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