sherbet
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A fizzy sweet powder with fruit flavor eaten as a small treat
- noun
- /ˈʃɜr.bɪt/
- UK
:
polvo de frutas
- After lunch, we enjoyed a refreshing bowl of sherbet with a tangy lime flavor.
Examples
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"Why don't you sit on the balcony, and I will make sherbet to drink?" He took a chair and the newspaper with him.
Fiction book (1995) -
" Rainbow sherbet, please," she said to her mother.
Fiction book (1998) -
It smells like orange sherbet and I really like it.
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One of the biscuits, garish inside as orange sherbet, had been torn in two.
Fiction book (1999) -
Can I have a scoop of sherbet for dessert? It tastes like fresh strawberries.
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She always orders sherbet on hot summer days because of its fruity sweetness.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sherbet comes from the Persian word sharbat, meaning 'a sweet drink', and the word travelled through Turkey into Europe. The same name later came to mean the fizzy, tangy powder treat, so you can remember the powder as the flavour of a sweet drink you can eat.