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Sorbet vs Surbet - What's the difference?

sorbet | surbet |

As a noun sorbet

is frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, used as dessert or between courses of a meal.

As an adjective surbet is

surbated; bruised.

sorbet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, used as dessert or between courses of a meal.
    • After dinner we had an orange sorbet that was very refreshing.

    Synonyms

    * ice * Italian ice

    Anagrams

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    surbet

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) surbated; bruised
  • * Edmund Spenser
    • A traveller with feet surbet .
    (Webster 1913)