Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A confection of figs; a national sweetmeat of Turkey and Greece.
- noun A pink or white confection consisting of squares of a semi-transparent sweetish paste dusted with fine white sugar.
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Examples
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The tails went next, along with some percussion caps and cough candy, and some fig-paste from Constantinople.
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The tails went next, along with some percussion caps and cough candy, and some fig-paste from Constantinople.
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
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This is a Dutch lugger from Samarcand, laden with raisins and fig-paste and lichi nuts and cream dates.
The Merryweathers Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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"Are you fond of hunting?" asked Atossa, delicately taking a little piece of white fig-paste.
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The kaffeji, in loose white garments and a fez, presently brought out a polished brass tray, bearing the requisite number of tiny cups and two little white saucers filled with pieces of loukoum-rahat, the Turkish national sweetmeat, commonly called by schoolboys fig-paste.
Paul Patoff 1881
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Greek, and my lady is locked up on bread and water, or fig-paste, or Turkish Delight, and all is over.
The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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The tails went next, along with some percussion caps and cough candy, and some fig-paste from Constantinople.
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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The tails went next, along with some percussion caps and cough candy, and some fig-paste from Constantinople.
Roughing It, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
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The tails went next, along with some percussion caps and cough candy, and some fig-paste from Constantinople.
Roughing It 1871
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"I have no fig-paste, but wouldn't fresh doughnuts do as well, O man of blood?
The Merryweathers Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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