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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

Then came the Romans who brought hard durum wheat, and the Arabs who introduced sherbet, couscous and eggplant, not to mention a penchant for stuffed foods, pistachios and spices like saffron and cinnamon.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2023

Olaf Danilsen’s lighting bathes the stage and backdrop in sherbet or sorbet hues.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

The Brownings’ elopement created a schism between their families. sherbet.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

For Cornelia was surfeited with strange dishes, and rare sherbets, flowers, and music; surfeited with everything save the words that fell from the lips of Cleopatra.

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis


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