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.
noun
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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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Other Word Forms
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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”
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Here Confederate Gilmer's engineering skill has prepared ditch and fraise, abattis and chevaux-de-frise, with yawning graves for the soon-forgotten brave.
From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard
The fraise, cooked in water, and eaten with vinegar, is a wholesome and agreeable dish, and contains a mucilage well adapted for delicate persons.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
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
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)
A fraise is a palisade horizontal, or nearly so, projecting from the scarp or counterscarp.
From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)
It should be noted that the farm labels the fruit “wild” even though they have nothing to do with the tiny berries generally known as fraises des bois, or wild strawberries.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
We’ve enjoyed lettuces, Swiss chard, fraises des bois, radishes, scallions, celery and eggplant.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021
My brother, sister and I each kept a diary, a parental trip requirement, so those first tastes of quiche Lorraine, fraises des bois and crème frâiche have been forever cemented.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2018
Under dessert you find "tuile aux fraises, "with no English translation.
From Time Magazine Archive
How could you ever have such high waists, and such wonderful fraises!
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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