fraise

¹ American  

[freyz] / freɪz /

noun

1. Fortification. a defense consisting of pointed stakes projecting from the ramparts in a horizontal or an inclined position.

2. a ruff worn around the neck in the 16th century.

3. a woman's embroidered scarf worn with ends crossed on the chest and pinned with a brooch or the like, popular in the early 19th century.

4. Horology. a cutting tool for correcting inaccuracies in the teeth of a timepiece wheel.

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fraise ² American  

[frez] / frɛz /

noun

French.

fraises plural

1. strawberry.

2. crème de fraise.

3. a brandy distilled from strawberries.

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fraise British  

/ freɪz /

noun

1. a neck ruff worn during the 16th century

2. a sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes

3. 1. a tool for enlarging a drill hole

   2. a tool for cutting teeth on watch wheels

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• fraises
  plural

Etymology

Origin of fraise

1765–75; < French, derivative of fraiser “to frizzle, curl” < Provençal frezar ≪ Germanic; compare Old English frīs “curled”

Example Sentences

To PHRASE, FRAISE, v. n. to boast; to wheedle.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander

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