framboise
pronunciation
How to pronounce framboise in British English:
UK [frɔ:n'bwɑ:z]
How to pronounce framboise in American English:
US [frɔn'bwɑz]
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- Noun:
- the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange
Word Origin
- framboise (n.)
- 1570s, from French framboise "raspberry" (12c.), usually explained as a corruption (by influence of French fraise "strawberry") of Dutch braambezie (cognate with German brombeere "blackberry," literally "bramble-berry"). "But some French scholars doubt this" [OED].