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framboise

noun/fɹɑmˈbwɑz/

What It Means

Raspberry liqueur.

A Belgian beer made by fermenting lambic with raspberry.

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Framboise in Context

“Ruthe poured another round of coffee, this time with a shot glass of the framboise Dina made from their raspberry patch every fall.”

— 2002, Dana Stabenow, A Fine and Bitter Snow, page 52

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Borrowed from French framboise (“raspberry”). Doublet of bramberry and frambesia.

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