confiture
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of confiture
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You could have some of that good bread with Plugra butter and housemade confiture or a Jerusalem bagel to eat with labneh garnished with olive oil and za’atar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2015
To order, e-mail I just ordered this month’s Tell Tale Society package, and am alternating between the quince-caramelized honey cake, the fresh walnut and yuzu torrone and the spruce confiture de lait.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2010
There is a convent near Brisbane, Australia, where the nuns serve visitors a specialty of their religious house: confiture of prickly pear.
From Time Magazine Archive
The last-mentioned, but not the least-important preparation of fruit, is the compôte, a confiture made at the moment of need, and with much less sugar than would be ordinarily put to preserves.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
In them, generally, was a change of underwear, light boots, hard biscuit, canned meats and confiture.
From Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium by Glenna Lindsley Bigelow
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