Origin: French suffix -aise
Fraise has 8 different meanings across 1 category:
a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century
sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes
A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
Alternative form of froise (“kind of pancake or omelette”)
A stylized strawberry with leaves.
Commotion.
In plain English: Fraise means a disturbance or uproar.
"The sudden announcement caused a real fraise in the crowd."
To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.
To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
In plain English: Soldiers form a wall with their bayonets to stop horses from charging.
"The soldiers were ordered to fraise, forming a wall of steel against the approaching horses."