Obs. 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.] The raspberry (Rubus Idæus).
[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. Strawberies are for pleasantnesse of taste, acceptablenesse to the stomacke, and goodnesse of iuyce, to bee preferred before the Framboise.
1651. trans. Bacon’s Life & Death, 31. Of this sort, the chiefe are Borage … Frambois or Raspis, [etc.].
