n. Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, used as dessert or between courses of a meal.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A kind of beverage; sherbet.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Sherbet; also, water-ice of any kind; especially, a water-ice which is not very hard frozen, so that it remains semi-liquid; also, water-ice flavored with rum, kirschwasser, or the like, as distinguished from that made without spirit.
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n. an ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice
Word Usage
"This kind of preparation was first refined in 17th-century Italy, which gave us the term sorbet via sorbetto from the Arabic sharab, or “syrup”."