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comfit
[ kuhm-fit, kom- ]
noun
- a candy containing a nut or piece of fruit.
comfit
/ ˈkʌmfɪt; ˈkɒm- /
noun
- a sugar-coated sweet containing a nut or seed
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Origin of comfit1
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Example Sentences
I had always, from earliest childhood, been outrageously fond of this delicate comfit.
Dora took courage beneath the caressing hand: "I like to be a comfit to mother best," she vouchsafed, brightly daring.
Of these early ordinaries the earliest known to be licensed goes as far back as 1634, when Samuel Cole, comfit-maker, kept it.
Comfit boxes—Boxes divided into compartments in which were rare spices, handed round with dessert.
They passed their jeweled comfit-boxes one to another and whispered their content in the head butterfly's practical prudence.
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