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Definition of sorbet
: a usually fruit-flavored ice served as a dessert or between courses as a palate refresher
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Recent Examples of sorbet from the Web
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This entry-level cuvée from Château Minuty is a perfect example, with its delicate flavors of white cranberries and strawberry sorbet, and a steal at this bargain basement price while supplies last.
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Restaurant de l’Ogenblik This traditional brasserie was founded by six friends in 1969 and serves hearty plates of comfort food, with steak and fries and desserts such as lemon sorbet with vodka.
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The menu includes crispy shrimp toast, pork tenderloins in Creole mustard cream sauce and summer sorbets.
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The ice creams and sorbets are wide-ranging with deep, rich taste while the Superman and Playdough scoops left my tongue licking faster than a speeding bullet.
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Dairy-free ice cream options have come a long way thanks in part to meat-eating folks looking to avoid dairy or just make healthier choices without defaulting to sorbet, the usual substitute.
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Sorbets, which are typically nondairy, won’t yield a surface that’s quite as foamy.
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Dairy-free ice cream options have come a long way thanks in part to meat-eating folk looking to avoid dairy or just make healthier choices without defaulting to sorbet, the usual substitute.
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The recipe for mango sorbetto (sorbet), for example, calls for 50 percent fresh Mexican Ataulfo mango, water and sugar, but no dairy, so its vegan.
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Origin and Etymology of sorbet
French, from Middle French, sweetened fruit juice, from Old Italian sorbetto, from Turkish şerbet — more at sherbet
SORBET Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of sorbet for English Language Learners
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: a frozen sweet dessert that is made usually from fruit or fruit juices
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