confit
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of confit
From French; comfit
Example Sentences
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Confit duck legs, sole meunière and blue-chip artwork are all on the menu at the new restaurant inside Sotheby’s Breuer building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Confit is a French verb traditionally meaning* to cook food in its own fat.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2023
Confit is just a slow cooking method where you cover the ingredient with fat.
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2019
Confit duck legs are served in a puddle of citrus and chiles, like an especially crisp version of pollo en escabeche.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2015
Next comes the Confit d'Oie, a sort of goose stew, utterly unlike anything you have tasted before, but not without its merits.
From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)
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