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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

Mandalay Beach, also known as Oxnard State Beach, has sherbet sunsets over its dunes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2024

Try Hawaiian-style sherbet, a recipe that’s lusher than sorbet but more ethereal than ice cream.

From New York Times Jul. 2, 2023

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

You can’t look like Mr. I-Own-the-Gleaming-Car when you’re eating a huge bowl of raspberry sherbet in someone’s kitchen.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

In the former, on a multitude of small marble tables, a regiment of attentive waiters served ices and sherbets, wine and chocolate, coffee and liqueurs.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various




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