framboise, n. and a.
Also 6 framboye, 6–7 frambois, -boys.
[a. F. framboise (from 12th c.), usually regarded as a corruption of Du. braambezie = Ger. brombeere blackberry, lit. bramble-berry: see bramble, broom, berry. But some French scholars doubt this.]
† A. n. The raspberry (Rubus Idæus). Obs.
| [1551–62 Turner cites the word as French only.] 1578 Lyte Dodoens vi. v. 662 Of Framboys, Raspis, or Hyndberie. The Framboye is a kinde of bremble. 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 125 Strawberries are..to be preferred before the Framboise. 1651 tr. Bacon's Life & Death 31 Of this sort the chief are Borage..Frambois or Raspis, &c. |
B. adj. Of raspberry colour. Also absol.
| 1904 Daily Chron. 24 Sept. 8/3 The soft..framboise tones. 1959 Times 28 Sept. 13/2 It [sc. a suit] can also be obtained in size 18..in framboise. |
frambousier [F. framboisier], a raspberry bush.
| a 1648 Ld. Herbert Life Hen. VIII (1683) 89 A Frambousier or Raspis-Bush. |