comfit

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Sister Celestine had invented a new kind of comfit which she begged Euphrosyne to try, leaving a paper of sweetmeats on her table for that purpose.

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  1. noun A confection that consists of a piece of fruit, a seed, or a nut coated with sugar.

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  • Handmade pasta is topped with duck comfit, brussel sprouts, wild mushrooms and mozzarella ($14.95). —  Queens Gazette
  • A police comfit of the man who tried to kidnap a 14-year-old girl at Maleny. —  thedaily.com.au: Breaking News
  • Sister Celestine had invented a new kind of comfit which she begged Euphrosyne to try, leaving a paper of sweetmeats on her table for that purpose. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
  • All the world, the grave and the gay, carried in their pockets a comfit-box_, as we do snuff-boxes. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
  • They used them even on the most solemn occasions; when the Duke of Guise was shot at Blois, he was found with his comfit-box in his hand.--Fashions indeed have been carried to so extravagant a length, as to have become a public offence, and to have required the interference of government. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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  1. Middle English confit, from Old French, from Latin cōnfectum, thing prepared, neuter past participle of cōnficere, to prepare : com-, com- + facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also cumfit; from Middle English confit = Dutch konfijt, from Old French confit, French confit = Spanish confite (after F.) = Portuguese confeito = Italian confetto, a confect, from Latin confectus, past participle of conficere, put together, prepare, later Old French confire, French confire, preserve, pickle: see confect, n. (a doublet of comfit), and confect, v.
  2. from comfit, n. Cf. confect, v.
 

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