From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsorbetsor‧bet /ˈsɔːbeɪ $ ˈsɔːrbɪt/ noun [countable, uncountable] DFFa frozen sweet food made of fruit juice, sugar, and water → ice cream
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sorbet• Diaz says he's going to change the dessert menu soon, adding sorbet and fresh berries.• Even the desserts are intoxicants, as in sangria-poached white peaches with a pure, rich cream sorbet.• Fruit sorbet would be a refreshing end to a cookout meal.• Passion fruit: eat pulp straight from the fruit or drizzle over ice-cream or sorbets.• Afterwards they had eaten orange sorbet followed by cheese and fruit.• Scented by infusion with wild tarragon, like no other sorbet I have ever tasted, a mere thimbleful did the trick.• Raspberry Ripple Cake combines vanilla ice-cream, raspberry sorbet, bitter chocolate and fresh raspberries.• Brew tea and serve sorbet or cookies.Origin sorbet (1500-1600) Old French “fruit drink”, from Old Italian sorbetto, from Turkish serbet; → SHERBET 