Talk:fraise
Military sense is probably a separate etymology. Equinox ◑ 23:14, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
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"(Gallicism, chiefly cooking, rare) A strawberry." Needs three English citations. Currently has two: one about strawberry motifs on a coat of arms (I've checked and it's not italicised in the original, but is specifically in connection with the surname Fraser) and the other using the fixed French phrase "fraises Romanoff", which I think makes it an invalid citation. (We may talk in English about the dessert "poire belle Hélène" but it doesn't make any of those individual words English.) Also please check the glosses: it currently says "chiefly cooking" but there are only two citations, and only one is about food, and it's the one I consider invalid. Equinox ◑ 17:15, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- We now have three cites, all used in heraldry. I think we can validly consider this a heraldry term, and I have adjusted the tag as a result. As far as food writing goes, there is "fraises Romanoff" and "fraise du bois" (alpine strawberry), but I agree that the use of "fraise" there is not English, although one could argue that the entire phrase ("fraises Romanoff" or "fraise du bois") is English.
- Heraldry is always weird old French. Looks good to me; thanks for attention to glosses (but since we've now called it a heraldry term I think we could remove "Gallicism", right?). Equinox ◑ 10:01, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
RFV-resolved. Passed as amended. Kiwima (talk) 19:55, 21 March 2020 (UTC)