sweetmeats
Example Sentences
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Pilgrims purchase coconuts, sweetmeats, flowers, and incense for their ritualistic offerings.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
Gifting new clothes and sweetmeats is a key part of the celebrations.
From Reuters ● Apr. 11, 2023
Today, in Malaysia, the Kristang are known mostly for their curries and sweetmeats or for their guitar-playing troubadours — a once-vibrant community diminished to cultural clichés.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2020
Valentine’s Day 2012: There were red roses and pink balloons, sweetmeats molded into hearts and fireworks that shattered the icy Beijing air.
From Time ● Oct. 22, 2015
And he was giving her a poke of sweetmeats he had bought for his wife.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
