sherbet

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sher·bet /ˈʃɜːbət $ ˈʃɜːr-/ noun  1. [countable, uncountable] American EnglishDFF a sweet frozen food made with water, fruit, sugar, and milk 果汁冰糕〔一种用水、水果、糖和牛奶制成的冷冻甜食〕2. [uncountable] British EnglishDF a powder that is eaten as a sweet 果味甜粉〔一种甜食〕

Examples from the Corpus

sherbet• To one side, dropped unnoticed, lay a silver cup which had not contained sherbet.• I suggested we stop at a bar for sherbet - the latest thing, sprinkled with ginger.• Fruit sherbets must weigh no less than 6 pounds per gallon.• For dessert, cover lime sherbet with a blanket of chocolate chips or chocolate sandwich cookie chunks.• The characterizing ingredients of sherbet include fruits and fruit juices.• Now they were dying in the snow, feeling nothing, turning the snow to the color of raspberry sherbet.• Snow from the mountains were used to make the sherbets of yesteryear, but nowadays we have freezers.Origin sherbet (1600-1700) Turkish serbet, from Persian sharbat, from Arabic sharbah “drink”, from shariba “to drink”

sher·bet nounChineseSyllable  

frozen fruit, Corpus a sugar, food sweet made with water,

sherbet
sher‧bet /ˈʃɜːbət $ ˈʃɜːr-/ noun1. [uncountable and countable] American English a sweet frozen food made with water, fruit, sugar, and milk
2. [uncountable] British English a powder that is eaten as a sweet

sher·betBrE /ˈʃɜːbət/ 🔊NAmE /ˈʃɜːrbət/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] (BrE) a powder that tastes of fruit and fizzes when you put it in your mouth, eaten as a sweet/candy 果味汽水粉糖 [countable, uncountable] (NAmE, becoming old-fashioned) = sorbet