fraise

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English fraisen, from Old English frāsian (“to ask, try, tempt”), from Proto-Germanic *fraisōną (“to attempt, try”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to attempt, try; risk, peril”). Cognate with West Frisian freezje (“to fear”), Dutch vrezen (“to fear, dread, be afraid”), German freisen (“to put at risk, endanger, terrify”).

Verb

fraise (third-person singular simple present frais, present participle ing, simple past and past participle fraised)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To put in danger, terror, or at risk.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French fraise (“ruff”), fraiser; compare French friser (“curl”), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic).

Noun

fraise (plural fraises)

  1. A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
  2. (historical) A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
  3. (historical) An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.
  4. A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
  5. A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.

Verb

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  1. (military) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
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Etymology 3

See froise.

Noun

fraise (plural fraises)

  1. A large thick pancake with slices of bacon in it.
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Etymology 4

Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”), from earlier *fraige, from Latin frāga.

Noun

fraise (plural fraises)

  1. (Gallicism, chiefly cooking, rare) A strawberry.
    • 1978 January 27, New York Magazine, volume 11, number 9, page 62:
      The big-deal dessert is fraises Romanoff, ripe strawberries in liquored whipped cream.
    • 2015, Howard Belton, A History of the World in Five Menus,
      The Emperor also gave the family three fraises, or stalked strawberries, for their coat of arms.

Etymology 5

Noun

fraise

  1. (UK, dialect, dated) commotion
References
  • Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908).

Anagrams

French

fraise

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Earlier *fraige, from Latin frāga, plural of frāgum.

Noun

fraise f (plural fraises)

  2. strawberry
  4. bulwark, palisade (defensive rampart of earth with sharpened wooden stakes set in at an angle)
  6. (literary) nipple
    • 1797, Marquis de Sade, Juliette, I:
      Les doigts de notre charmante supérieure chatouillaient les fraises de mon sein, et sa langue frétillait dans ma bouche.
    • 2001, Dominique Leroy, Hic et Hec, p. 53:
      un corset négligemment noué par une échelle de rubans gris de lin renfermait à demi la neige élastique de son sein, son mouchoir transparent, dérangé par les mouvements de la nuit, laissait voir une fraise vermeille [...].
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Arabic: فريز (frēz)
  • → English: fraise
  • → Khmer: ហ្វ្រែហ្ស៍ (hvrɛɛh)

Descendants

des fraises

Etymology 2

Related to fraiser, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *fresāre, from Latin fresum, past participle of frendō, or from a derived root *fresa. Compare Italian and Spanish fresa.

Noun

fraise f (plural fraises)

  2. calf's mesentery
  4. (historical) fraise (ruff collar)
  6. milling cutter

Derived terms

Descendants

Verb

fraise

  1. inflection of fraiser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

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