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
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
Try Hawaiian-style sherbet, a recipe that’s lusher than sorbet but more ethereal than ice cream.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2023
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
There were goblets, sherbet glasses, ice-cream glasses, wine glasses, green glass coffee cups with matching saucers, and water glasses.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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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
The provocatively named passion fruit, though adding a bright sophisticated flavor to sherbets and creamy desserts, is unpleasantly cloying when eaten plain.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They took in all the entertainments, sipped sherbets and the various unnamable drinks which are sold in such places, and revelled in a few hours of freedom.
From The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins
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