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fraise¹

  • /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ US, UK
  • [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z] US, UK
  • /ˈfɹɛjz/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈfɹʷɛjz] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ Australia, New Zealand
  • [ˈfɹʷæ̝ɪ̯z] Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈfɾez/ Scotland
  • [ˈfɾeːz] Scotland

Sounds like frays, phrase · Rhymes with -eɪz

Where it comes from

From Middle English fraisen, from Old English frāsian (“to ask, try, tempt”), from Proto-Germanic *fraisōną (“to attempt, try”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to attempt, try; risk, peril”). Cognate with West Frisian freezje (“to fear”), Dutch vrezen (“to fear, dread, be afraid”), German freisen (“to put at risk, endanger, terrify”).

Alternatively the Middle English fraisen was borrowed from Middle Dutch vreisen, vresen (“to be afraid; to endanger, threaten, frighten”), from Old Dutch *freisōn, *frēsōn, from the same Proto-West Germanic source above.

verb fraises · fraising · fraised

  1. archaic, transitive To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.

fraise²

  • /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ US, UK
  • [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z] US, UK
  • /ˈfɹɛjz/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈfɹʷɛjz] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ Australia, New Zealand
  • [ˈfɹʷæ̝ɪ̯z] Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈfɾez/ Scotland
  • [ˈfɾeːz] Scotland

Sounds like frays, phrase · Rhymes with -eɪz

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French fraise (“ruff”), fraiser; compare French friser (“curl”), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic.

noun fraises

  1. 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.
  2. historical A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
  3. historical An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century. Among the most conspicuous is the pelerine collar, made of black velvet, and forming a fraise round the throat. The fraise is lined with such light-colored silks as pink and blue, and the pelerine is piped with silk of the same color.
  4. A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
  5. A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.

verb fraises · fraising · fraised

  1. To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward. to fraise a battaion is to line or cover it every way with bayonets

fraise³

  • /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ US, UK
  • [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z] US, UK
  • /ˈfɹɛjz/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈfɹʷɛjz] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ Australia, New Zealand
  • [ˈfɹʷæ̝ɪ̯z] Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈfɾez/ Scotland
  • [ˈfɾeːz] Scotland

Sounds like frays, phrase · Rhymes with -eɪz

Where it comes from

See froise.

noun fraises

  1. alternative Alternative form of froise (“kind of pancake or omelette”). Take a fraise and one udder or two (according to their size) of the veal, blanch and let them cool, mince them ; hash some mushrooms, shalots, parsley, and truffle;

fraise⁴

  • /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ US, UK
  • [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z] US, UK
  • /ˈfɹɛjz/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈfɹʷɛjz] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ Australia, New Zealand
  • [ˈfɹʷæ̝ɪ̯z] Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈfɾez/ Scotland
  • [ˈfɾeːz] Scotland

Sounds like frays, phrase · Rhymes with -eɪz

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”), from earlier *fraige, from Latin frāga.

noun fraises

  1. A stylized strawberry with leaves. The surname of Bernard is derived from the ancestor carrying, for his device, Argent, a bear rampant sable muzzled or; the name of Frazer from the bearing of fraises or strawberry leaves; and many other instances might be adduced ...

fraise⁵

  • /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ US, UK
  • [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯z] US, UK
  • /ˈfɹɛjz/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈfɹʷɛjz] British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/ Australia, New Zealand
  • [ˈfɹʷæ̝ɪ̯z] Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈfɾez/ Scotland
  • [ˈfɾeːz] Scotland

Sounds like frays, phrase · Rhymes with -eɪz

noun

  1. UK, dated, dialectal Commotion.

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@misc{fraise_2026,
  title = {fraise},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fraise},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}