dial. [cf. FRAIS v.] A ‘fuss,’ commotion.

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1725.  Ramsay, Gent. Sheph., I. ii.

          Jen.  He may indeed, for ten or fifteen days,
Mak meikle o’ye, with an unco Fraise.

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1801.  R. Anderson, Cumberld. Ball. (1808), 18.

        Atween the twee there’s sec a frase
  O but it’s bad to beyde!

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1809.  F. Donaldson, Poems 77 (Northumbld. Gloss.).

        The auld wives aften mak’ a fraise,
Bet seldom to the bleacher’s praise.

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1871.  C. Gibbon, Lack of Gold, xxvi. Can you not let him have his own way, instead of standing here making a fraise about nothing?

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  b.  Comb.

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1683.  T. Hunt, Def. Charter Lond., 10. This Frace-maker and Scaramuchi to the vain youth of the nation, is ever enterchanging the characters of men.

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