fraise
/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.37 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
noun
An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.
Example Sentences
- "Among the most conspicuous is the pelerine collar, made of black velvet, and forming a fraise round the throat. The fraise is lined with such light-colored silks as pink and blue, and the pelerine is piped with silk of the same color."
- "to fraise a battaion is to line or cover it every way with bayonets"
- "Take a fraise and one udder or two (according to their size) of the veal, blanch and let them cool, mince them ; hash some mushrooms, shalots, parsley, and truffle;"
- "It is related of Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough, that no one could cook a fraise, as it was then called, for the great duke but herself."
- "The surname of Bernard is derived from the ancestor carrying, for his device, Argent, a bear rampant sable muzzled or; the name of Frazer from the bearing of fraises or strawberry leaves; and many other instances might be adduced ..."
- "Az. a fraise arg. between three garbs or, all within a bordure engrailed of the second. George Cumming (1790)"
Etymology
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”). Alternatively the Middle English fraisen was borrowed from Middle Dutch vreisen, vresen (“to be afraid; to endanger, threaten, frighten”), from Old Dutch *freisōn, *frēsōn, from the same Proto-West Germanic source above.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fraisen, frāsian, *fraisōną, *per-, vreisen, *freisōn
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
- British English: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
Usage
- Archaic
- Transitive verb
- British usage
- Dated