fraise

1. (historical) A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.historical

2. (historical) An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.Examples: "Among the most conspicuous is the pelerine collar, made of black velvet, and forming a fraise round the throat. The fraise is lined with such light-colored silks as pink and blue, and the pelerine is piped with silk of the same color."historical

1. (military) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.Examples: "to fraise a battaion is to line or cover it every way with bayonets"

1. (heraldry) A stylized strawberry with leaves.Examples: "The surname of Bernard is derived from the ancestor carrying, for his device, Argent, a bear rampant sable muzzled or; the name of Frazer from the bearing of fraises or strawberry leaves; and many other instances might be adduced ..."; "Az. a fraise arg. between three garbs or, all within a bordure engrailed of the second. George Cumming (1790)"; "The Emperor also gave the family three fraises, or stalked strawberries, for their coat of arms."

1. (UK, dialect, dated) Commotion.UKdateddialectal