: a usually fruit-flavored ice served as a dessert or between courses as a palate refresher
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Usually, this is done when a dasher (a mixing paddle) incorporates air and keeps the ice crystals from clumping together to create the soft-serve of ice cream, gelato, or sorbet.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 22 July 2025
Ice cream, gelato, sorbet, frozen yogurt, and even Italian ice are all possible with this compact machine, which includes a recipe book and four 24-ounce storage jars with lids.
—Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 July 2025
This us rich food but please have a dessert at Comodo, either the profiteroles with chocolate topping or the raspberry sorbet dashed with ruby Port.
—John Mariani, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
The island receives as many as 16,000 visitors per day in high summer, and every single one of them seems to immediately buy a lemon sorbet and eat it while bumping into things.
—Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2025
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 22 July 2025
Ice cream, gelato, sorbet, frozen yogurt, and even Italian ice are all possible with this compact machine, which includes a recipe book and four 24-ounce storage jars with lids.
—Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 July 2025
This us rich food but please have a dessert at Comodo, either the profiteroles with chocolate topping or the raspberry sorbet dashed with ruby Port.
—John Mariani, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
The island receives as many as 16,000 visitors per day in high summer, and every single one of them seems to immediately buy a lemon sorbet and eat it while bumping into things.
—Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2025
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“Sorbet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sorbet. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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sorbet
noun
sor·bet
sȯr-ˈbā 
: a fruit-flavored ice served especially as a dessert
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