frappé

Meaning

Noun

1. A frozen fruit-flavoured dessert or appetizer.
2. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of frappe (“a liqueur or cocktail served on shaved ice”).
3. A movement where the foot is struck against the floor over the ankle in ballet or other forms of dance.

Adj

Iced; cooled.

Synonyms

frozen

iced

Translations

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɹæˈpeɪ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French frappé, past participle of frapper (“to hit, strike”), from Old French fraper, from Old Low Franconian *hrappan 'to jerk, snatch', from Proto-Germanic *hrappijaną (“to hurry”), from *hrapaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krob.