sweetmeats

• Calcutta is famous for its sweetmeats, the best in India. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
• However the idea crops up all over the world - from the pagan wish trees of Europe tied with rags - to the Hindu banyan tree through to the Christmas tree which before pine trees were introduced by Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840 were evergreen boughs hung with apples, sweetmeats, and candles and decked with ribbons representing wishes. —  Greenpeace UK - Comments
• She'll learn how to craft all kinds of cocoa-based sweetmeats, and will also take home a bottle of champagne. —  Londonist
• Our words were doubtless polarized more than once in transmission We had tea and sweetmeats, the latter in great variety. —  Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life
• Mallem Osman then filled a large bag with the choicest of his sweetmeats, and putting thirty dirhems in a paper, he approached Yussuf, saying, "My prince, I humbly beg your acceptance of this trifling present of sweetmeats, and these thirty dirhems for the expenses of the bath after your fatiguing journey hither. —  The Pacha of Many Tales

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