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sherbet

[shur-bit] / ˈʃɜr bɪt /
NOUN
ice cream
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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

I side-eyed Sabre’s prices, then ordered a cheap set with cheerful plastic handles in various sherbet hues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

When Miss World became popular in India, it also brought a different idea of beauty - of tiny sculpted waists, sherbet gowns and a heavily contoured face.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023

Cool off with this family-friendly nonalcoholic cocktail that features a refreshing combination of homemade orange sherbet bobbing about in orange juice and seltzer.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2023

It didn’t to Jonah—he’d always known he was adopted, and as far as he was concerned, it wasn’t much more of a deal than his liking mint chocolate-chip ice cream while Katherine liked orange sherbet.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Ice-cream novelties in the forms of bananas, daisies, ducks, rabbits, other flora & fauna were restricted to five varieties per month; ices and sherbets to two flavors per month.

From Time Magazine Archive

Desserts now regarded as sherbets are ices to which are added egg whites, gelatine, milk, or any combination of these things.

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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