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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

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

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

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

From New York Times Apr. 29, 2022

“Lord, you all make my mouth hurt just thinking about all that sugar,” Momma says, and then she orders a small mango sherbet.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

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

The party were immediately beset with servants offering them fruit and sherbets, and they were sprinkled with rose-water from silver flagons.

From Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East by Oliver Optic




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