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Here Confederate Gilmer's engineering skill has prepared ditch and fraise, abattis and chevaux-de-frise, with yawning graves for the soon-forgotten brave.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Richard Savage

What needs there be sae great a fraise Wi' dringing dull Italian lays?

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

I caused a sloping picket fence, technically called a fraise, to be projected over the parapet on my side of the work, as an obstacle against an escalading party.

From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Abner Doubleday

We have not spoken, in the above catalogue, either of the liver, or of the fraise, or of the ears, which also share the honour of appearing at our tables.

From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

"Ferry Hills" Fort—Earth and concrete—Very deep ditches, flanked by counterscarp galleries and a stone caponier—Casemated—Probable armament—Two 9.2-inch guns, six 7.5-inch guns—Wrought-iron fraise below counterscarp.

From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux

It should be noted that the farm labels the fruit “wild” even though they have nothing to do with the tiny berries generally known as fraises des bois, or wild strawberries.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022

We’ve enjoyed lettuces, Swiss chard, fraises des bois, radishes, scallions, celery and eggplant.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021

My brother, sister and I each kept a diary, a parental trip requirement, so those first tastes of quiche Lorraine, fraises des bois and crème frâiche have been forever cemented.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2018

Under dessert you find "tuile aux fraises, "with no English translation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Strong fraises, defending both scarp and counterscarp, prevented approach.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree