comfit
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of comfit
1300–50; Middle English confit < Middle French < Latin confectum something prepared. See confect
Example Sentences
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And he bought a round red lacquered comfit dish with a cover, and in this he put sesame cakes and larded sweets and he put the box on the table.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
It taught preserving and comfit making, cooking, and housewifery.
From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by S. A. Reilly
Then I saw the beautifully cut lips of my judge part, that the voice might slide forth, and, taking a comfit, he tittered, with unchanging tint and sweetest tone, the three words, "Apply the question."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
I had always, from earliest childhood, been outrageously fond of this delicate comfit.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train
But I am Corydon, I am not he, Though I no more that Corydon shall be To make a sugared comfit of my song.
From English Poems by Richard Le Gallienne
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