: a usually fruit-flavored ice served as a dessert or between courses as a palate refresher
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Raspberry sorbet with chocolate wafers is a simple dessert.
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Susan Nicholson, arkansasonline.com, 15 Jan. 2025
The countertop acts as the bar, with the silver cylinders housing opening flavors: gingerbread; an almost savory fig leaf, oolong, and prune; mellow sorbets.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2025
My favorite dish was a pandan and coconut custard mochi cake served with coconut sorbet.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2024
The resort’s popular daily afternoon ritual of complimentary ice cream and sorbet is still available, and now includes an adult version with the addition of sparkling wine float.
—Christina Liao, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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Susan Nicholson, arkansasonline.com, 15 Jan. 2025
The countertop acts as the bar, with the silver cylinders housing opening flavors: gingerbread; an almost savory fig leaf, oolong, and prune; mellow sorbets.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2025
My favorite dish was a pandan and coconut custard mochi cake served with coconut sorbet.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2024
The resort’s popular daily afternoon ritual of complimentary ice cream and sorbet is still available, and now includes an adult version with the addition of sparkling wine float.
—Christina Liao, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Sorbet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sorbet. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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sorbet
noun
sor·bet
sȯr-ˈbā 
: a fruit-flavored ice served especially as a dessert
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