English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɹeɪz/

Verb

fraise ‎(third-person singular simple present fraises, present participle fraising, simple past and past participle fraised)

1. (transitive, archaic) to put in danger, terror, or at risk

Related terms

• fraist

Etymology 2

From French fraise, fraiser.

Noun

fraise ‎(plural fraises)

1. (historical) A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
2. 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.
3. A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.

Verb

fraise ‎(third-person singular simple present fraises, present participle fraising, simple past and past participle fraised)

1. (military) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

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Etymology 3

See froise.

Noun

fraise ‎(plural fraises)

1. A large thick pancake with slices of bacon in it.

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French

fraise

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɛz/

Etymology 1

Earlier fraige, from Latin frāga, plural of frāgum.

Noun

fraise f ‎(plural fraises)

1. strawberry
2. bulwark, palisade (defensive rampart of earth with sharpened wooden stakes set in at an angle)
3. (literary) nipple
   • 1797, Marquis de Sade, Juliette, I:

     Les doigts de notre charmante supérieure chatouillaient les fraises de mon sein, et sa langue frétillait dans ma bouche.

   • 2001, Dominique Leroy, Hic et Hec, p. 53:

     un corset négligemment noué par une échelle de rubans gris de lin renfermait à demi la neige élastique de son sein, son mouchoir transparent, dérangé par les mouvements de la nuit, laissait voir une fraise vermeille [...].

4. tool use for cut pièce in mechanical industrie

Derived terms

• aller aux fraises
• fraisage
• fraise des bois
• fraise des Indes
• fraiser
• fraiseur
• fraiseuse
• fraisier
• fraisiériste
• ramener sa fraises

Etymology 2

From fraiser.

Noun

fraise f ‎(plural fraises)

1. calf's mesentery
2. (historical) fraise (ruff collar)

Verb

fraise

1. first-person singular present indicative of fraiser
2. third-person singular present indicative of fraiser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fraiser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fraiser
5. second-person singular imperative of fraiser

Anagrams

• ferais
• férias
• fieras
• fraies
• refais