: a usually fruit-flavored ice served as a dessert or between courses as a palate refresher
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Its funky mysteries flicker in my brain until the perilla sorbet a couple of courses later washes it away.
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Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
My favorite dish was a pandan and coconut custard mochi cake served with coconut sorbet.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
After a decade of selling sorbets at the Poway Farmers Market, So Cal Famous Beach Ice opened its first retail outlet in Poway on July 6.
—Susan Gill Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
The third course dessert choices are pumpkin pie, chocolate pie and sorbet.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 15 Nov. 2025
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Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
My favorite dish was a pandan and coconut custard mochi cake served with coconut sorbet.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
After a decade of selling sorbets at the Poway Farmers Market, So Cal Famous Beach Ice opened its first retail outlet in Poway on July 6.
—Susan Gill Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
The third course dessert choices are pumpkin pie, chocolate pie and sorbet.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 15 Nov. 2025
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“Sorbet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sorbet. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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sorbet
noun
sor·bet
sȯr-ˈbā 
: a fruit-flavored ice served especially as a dessert
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