sweetmeat
Archaic. a sweet delicacy, as a candy or candied fruit, or, originally, a cake or pastry.
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How to use sweetmeat in a sentence
When bits of sweetmeat lodged in the teeth, the sucket fork doubled as a nifty toothpick.
The Strange Way We Eat: Bee Wilson’s ‘Consider the Fork’ | Bee Wilson | October 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMost of these here are munching sweetmeats; they love them as children do, and the sweetmeat-seller never lacks trade.
Round the Wonderful World | G. E. MittonThen we see a sweetmeat shop with a crowd outside and a cloud of flies bearing them company.
Round the Wonderful World | G. E. MittonDid you ever consider that the only sweetmeat our forefathers had for thousands of years was wild honey?
Bill's School and Mine | William Suddards FranklinShe had made the sweetmeat herself, and had earned the money to buy a half-dozen tumblers, by braiding rugs for Mrs. Parshley.
Narcissa, or the Road to Rome | Laura E. Richards
Forbes laughed at the spectacle of a big, rich man pouting like a reluctant child against having a sweetmeat forced on him.
What Will People Say? | Rupert Hughes
British Dictionary definitions for sweetmeat
/ (ˈswiːtˌmiːt) /
a sweetened delicacy, such as a preserve, sweet, or, formerly, a cake or pastry
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