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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A frozen, fruit-flavored mixture that is similar to sherbet and served as a dessert or appetizer.
  2. n. A beverage, usually a liqueur, poured over shaved ice.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Made very cold by the application of ice: said of wine, and, in French restaurants, of water: as, a carafe frappée, a water-bottle filled and artificially frozen.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a frozen fruit flavoured dessert or appetizer
  2. n. a liqueur or cocktail served on shaved ice
  3. n. a movement where you strike your foot against the floor over the ankle in ballet or other forms of dance.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Iced; frozen; artificially cooled.

Etymologies

  1. Past participle of French frapper 'to hit, strike', from Old French fraper, from Old Low Franconian *hrappan 'to jerk, snatch' (cf. Dutch reppen 'to hurry'), from Proto-Germanic *hrapjanan 'to hurry' (compare Old English hreppan 'to touch, treat', Old Norse hrapa 'to hurry; fall', German raffen 'to grab'), from *hrapaz (compare Middle Low German rapp 'quick'), from Proto-Indo-European *krob (compare Middle Irish crip, crib 'quick', Tocharian kārpā 'to come down, step down', Lithuanian krapštýti 'to scratch, rub', Old Church Slavonic krĕpŭkŭ 'firm'). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from past participle of frapper, to strike, chill, from Old French fraper, to strike, probably of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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