confiture
Americannoun
noun
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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
But by four o'clock the first basket of plums was stoned, the sugar weighed, and a huge copper basin of confiture was merrily boiling on the stove.
From My Home in the Field of Honor by Frances Wilson Huard
"May I have this confiture?" asked a battle-stained French orderly, coming up to him.
From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer
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