: a usually fruit-flavored ice served as a dessert or between courses as a palate refresher
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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 Also, more than a few of those there were more familiar with their salad, entrée and sorbet desert than the entertainment issues the 85-year-old Hollywood mandarin was detailing.—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sorbet
Word History
Etymology
French, from Middle French, sweetened fruit juice, from Old Italian sorbetto, from Turkish şerbet — more at sherbet
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