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Answer for the clue "Ice cream alternative ", 7 letters:
sherbet

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Word definitions for sherbet in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sherbet , kali ( Northern English ), or keli ( Scottish ) is a fizzy powder sweet , usually eaten by dipping a lollipop or liquorice , or licking it on a finger.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an ice containing milk [syn: sherbert , sorbet ]

Usage examples of sherbet.

A bath attendant brought them cups of frozen sherbet and bowed out of their presence.

He poured lemon sherbet for himself and Sabin and lifted the fluted cup to his lips.

Strongfist raised the horn to his lips and lowered it again, the sherbet untasted.

Usamah clapped his hands and sent an attendant to fetch sherbet and sweetmeats.

Crying out his sherbet with a hoarse croaking, carrying the bronze can in his right hand and in his left the little basket with the snow hi it, Barba Jannis approached, hideous with his pointed head.

And what the Christians had in mind but dared not yet express, he shouted out loud with the sherbet in summer and the salepi in winter, and brought relief to Christendom.

But she reclined on soft cushions behind the lattice of the balcony on the street, drinking sherbet, chewing mastic and eyeing the passers-by.

When their meal was ended, the hermit, who had not himself eaten a morsel, removed the fragments from the table, and placing before the Saracen a pitcher of sherbet, assigned to the Scot a flask of wine.

On a small stand of ebony beside the couch stood a silver vase, containing sherbet of the most exquisite quality, cold as snow, and which the thirst that followed the use of the strong narcotic rendered peculiarly delicious.

Lambs roasted whole, and game and poultry dressed in pilaus, were piled in vessels of gold, and silver, and porcelain, and intermixed with large mazers of sherbet, cooled in snow and ice from the caverns of Mount Lebanon.

Ilderim knew not of the formation of ice, but the munificent Soldan cools his sherbet with snow.

While they were speaking, the Archduke of Austria, who stood a little apart, was struck with the mention of iced sherbet, and took with pleasure and some bluntness the deep goblet, as the Earl of Huntingdon was about to replace it.

Mono was at work with poultice and blister sherbet every time they halted.

Relkin had already used blister sherbet to cool the sores and shrink them.

The straps were all lined with rabbit fur to ease the chafing, but Relkin knew he would have to work hard with blister sherbet and lotion for the next few stops.