fraise du bois

plural fraises du bois

1. alternativeAlternative form of fraise des bois.

   Here the valleys are simply crawling with the most delicious fraise du bois which nobody bothers to harvest.

   1965, David Wright, Patrick Swift, Algarve: A Portrait and a Guide, page 250

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   After this culinary lyric, I was served a strawberry ice cream made from fraises du bois, followed after the due interval by a woodcock flambé....

   1968, Storm Jameson, The White Crow, Macmillan and Co Ltd, page 115

   Flowers grow here as they will, lilies of the valley, wild garlic and fraise du bois all tangled up together.

   1968, Mary Hayley Bell, What Shall We Do Tomorrow?, London: Cassell, →ISBN, page 193

   A horse and carriage waits to take us to Central Park, where the grass is studded with fraises du bois.[…]Again, the insistent perfume of fraises du bois.

   1979 May 28, Gael Greene, “Sunday, Delicious Sunday”, in New York

   But the stream still dashed among the rocks; people were bathing and preparing the produce for market, watercress, lettuce, even delicious little fraises du bois, strawberries, ripe and sweet, with grains that melted in the mouth.

   1991, Herbert Gold, Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in Haiti, Prentice Hall Press, page 299

   The staff at The Conrad, even as the afternoon wore on, continued cheerfully to replace items, brining, among other things, a new joint of lamb and an exceedingly fresh fruit salad that sported quite a few fraises du bois.

   1991 October 15, Fay Maschler, “Getting down to pilau talk”, in Evening Standard, London, page 44