sherbet
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He illuminated the auditorium with candles and converted the private boxes into buffets stocked with alcohol, coffee, hot chocolate, sherbet and carved meats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Mandalay Beach, also known as Oxnard State Beach, has sherbet sunsets over its dunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024
She collects the classic fresh linen and vanilla scents, along with the more exotic: names like pumpkin pecan waffles and clementine sherbet.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2022
Olaf Danilsen’s lighting bathes the stage and backdrop in sherbet or sorbet hues.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
He had never even imagined lying on anything so comfortable as that sofa or drinking anything so delicious as that sherbet.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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The 800-square-foot shop serves 40 flavors of ice cream alongside sherbets, sorbets and fresh-fruit freezes; I opted for two scoops of strawberry cheesecake.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2018
Sweetshops peppered his boyhood and boyhood writing: lemon sherbets, bootlaces, gobstoppers and toffees; hard-boiled sweets served by boot-faced proprietors.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2016
There were savoury sausages, and sweet sherbets of every flavour, with coinciding lollipops to dip in them.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2013
Catherine de Medicis appears to have introduced sherbets and ices, possibly ice cream, to France in 1533, when she arrived there with her retinue to marry the future Henry II.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The addition of such ingredients improves the texture very much, for sherbets are less likely to be granular than ices.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
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