fraise
1 Americannoun
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Fortification. a defense consisting of pointed stakes projecting from the ramparts in a horizontal or an inclined position.
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a ruff worn around the neck in the 16th century.
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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.
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Horology. a cutting tool for correcting inaccuracies in the teeth of a timepiece wheel.
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a neck ruff worn during the 16th century
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a sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes
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a tool for enlarging a drill hole
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a tool for cutting teeth on watch wheels
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Etymology
Origin of fraise
1765–75; < French, derivative of fraiser “to frizzle, curl” < Provençal frezar ≪ Germanic; compare Old English frīs “curled”
Example Sentences
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According to some the name was derived from the fraise or 'strawberry' leaves in their arms, and it was related that they sprang from the Frezels of France.
From The Clan Fraser in Canada Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering by Fraser, Alexander
What needs there be sae great a fraise Wi' dringing dull Italian lays?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
I caused a sloping picket fence, technically called a fraise, to be projected over the parapet on my side of the work, as an obstacle against an escalading party.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner
It was the image of a woman in furred robes and spreading fraise, her hand lifted, her face addressed to the tabernacle.
From Crucial Instances by Wharton, Edith
We have not spoken, in the above catalogue, either of the liver, or of the fraise, or of the ears, which also share the honour of appearing at our tables.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
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