What does "fraise" mean?
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.
Fraise
/fɹeɪz/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: 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.
- Grammar: fraise is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: endanger.
- Usage evidence: 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.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 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.
- 2 Alternative form of froise (“kind of pancake or omelette”). alt-of, alternative
"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;"
- 3 A stylized strawberry with leaves.
"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 ..."
- 4 Commotion. UK, dated, dialectal
- 5 sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes wordnet
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- 6 A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century. historical
- 7 a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century wordnet
- 8 An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century. historical
"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."
- 9 A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
- 10 A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.
Verb
- 1 To put in danger, in terror, or at risk. archaic, transitive
- 2 To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
"to fraise a battaion is to line or cover it every way with bayonets"
Synonyms
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"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."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "fraise"?
Common synonyms include: endanger.
How do you use "fraise" in a sentence?
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.
How do you pronounce "fraise"?
Pronounced /fɹeɪz/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French fraise (“ruff”), fraiser; compare French friser (“curl”), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic.
Etymology 3
See froise.
Etymology 4
Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”), from earlier *fraige, from Latin frāga.