Fraise Definition
frāz
noun
A ruff or high collar of a kind worn esp. in the 16th cent.
Webster's New World
A barrier consisting of an inclined or horizontal fence as of wooden stakes.
Webster's New World
verb
(military) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
Wiktionary
Origin of Fraise
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French from Old French mesentery (from its pleated shape) from (feves) frasees shelled (beans), from the resemblance between the mesentery and the peel surrounding individual broad beans from Latin (faba) frēsa ground (bean) feminine past participle of frendere to crush frenum
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From French fraise, fraiser.
From Wiktionary
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See froise.
From Wiktionary
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