sherbet

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  1. noun A frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice, sugar, and water, and also containing milk, egg white, or gelatin.
  2. noun Chiefly British A beverage made of sweetened diluted fruit juice.
  3. noun Australian An alcoholic beverage, especially beer.
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  • They give you iced sherbet, and tie towels dipped in cold water round your head, which prevent you fainting and make you perspire. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • But the pavement is kept much neater; and the shops are all so clean, they seem just new painted.—Idle people of all sorts walk here for their diversion, or amuse themselves with drinking coffee, or sherbet, which is cried about as oranges and sweet-meats are in our play-houses. —  Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
  • In the sherbet, at 2 percent cuts, are Health and Welfare (which serves the autistic boy Spencer: the "face to the cuts" that Otter keeps talking about), juvenile corrections and the State Board of Tax Appeals (which helps people get out of paying their taxes). —  Boise Weekly
  • The cooling and fizzing sensation results from the endothermic reaction between sodium carbonate and a weak acid, commonly citric acid, releasing carbon dioxide gas, which occurs when the sherbet is moistened by saliva. —  Find Me A Cure
  • Then came a tray of different kinds of sherbet, then a tray of eatables. —  Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
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  1. Ottoman Turkish, sweet fruit drink, from Persian sharbat, from Arabic šarba, drink, from šariba, to drink; see śrb in Semitic roots.

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  1. Formerly also scherbet, sherbert, zerbet; from Turk, sherbet = Persian Hindustani sharbat, from Arabic sharbat, a drink, sip, beverage, syrup, from shariba, he drank. Cf. sorbet, a doublet of sherbet, and shrub, shrab, syrup, from the same Arabic source.
 

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