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Comfit

noun
1.
Candy containing a fruit or nut.





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"Comfit" Quotes from Famous Books



... these personages eating, and their veins filled with sweet-scented juices: works of art made to be destroyed. The guests breached a bastion, crunched a crusader and his horse and lance, or cracked a bishop, cope, chasuble, crosier and all, as remorselessly as we do a caraway comfit; sipping meanwhile hippocras and other spiced drinks, and Greek and Corsican wines, while every now and then little Turkish boys, turbaned, spangled, jewelled, and gilt, came offering on bended knee golden troughs of rose-water ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade


Words linked to "Comfit" :   sweet, tack together, assemble, set up, put together, piece, tack


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