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Female singer almost gets a milkshake
Answer for the clue "Female singer almost gets a milkshake ", 6 letters:
frappe
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 liqueur poured over shaved ice. 2 (context New England English) Thick milkshake containing ice cream. 3 (context Greece English) iced, sweetened, beaten coffee drink
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"iced drink," 1922, American English, from French noun use of frappé "made cold by application of ice," past participle of frapper "to chill," literally "to beat," from Old French fraper "to hit, strike" (see frap (v.)). Earlier in English as an adjective, ...
Usage examples of frappe.
The stucco building was painted the sweet green of a creme de menthe frappe and featured a covered entrance large enough to accommodate six huddled smokers seeking shelter from the rain.
I almost made a joke about creme de menthe frappes, but a black guy in a white jacket had materialized, a silver tray in hand.
Because old Mr Keene was a grouch and wouldn't let kids under twelve eat their stuff at the soda fountain (he claimed the pinball machines in the back room might corrupt them), they took the frappes in two huge waxed containers up to Bassey Park and sat on the grass to drink them.
I don't count Howard Johnson's, where I only had french fries and cheeseburgers and vanilla frappes with people like Buddy Willard.
She compromised by agreeing to take charge of the frappé bowl, far in the rear of the long hall.
Ella's particular response to this signal was to go down two flights of stairs to the cellar under the dry-goods store and bring up part of the cold frappé, which had been packed since noon in an ice-filled tub, as the ice from the old frog pond was too dirty to put into the beverage.
Further, in accordance with another of nature's laws that no two objects shall occupy the same place at a given time, several quarts of frappé politely slopped out to make way for the ice.
Then, with prickly little chills chasing up and down her spine, and her cheeks ablaze, she served to the perspiring multitude a great deal of frappé permanently weakened by several quarts of well-water.
Pendant les deux heures que dure cette première veille, on frappe de tems en tems un coup, ou sur la cloche, ou sur le tambour.
Keene was a grouch and wouldn't let kids under twelve eat their stuff at the soda fountain (he claimed the pinball machines in the back room might corrupt them), they took the frappes in two huge waxed containers up to Bassey Park and sat on the grass to drink them.
Now, the same annoying yet admirable stiff-neckedness that gave us the Jacobites, the force de frappe, Airbus, and ARRET signs in Quebec, has brought us a really cool operating system.