comfit
Example Sentences
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And he bought a round red lacquered comfit dish with a cover, and in this he put sesame cakes and larded sweets and he put the box on the table.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
They have vinegar also, and a kind of comfit like what the Arabs call Natef, and some others.
From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza
I had always, from earliest childhood, been outrageously fond of this delicate comfit.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train
Dora took courage beneath the caressing hand: "I like to be a comfit to mother best," she vouchsafed, brightly daring.
From A Sheaf of Corn by Mary E. Mann
Sister Célestine had invented a new kind of comfit which she begged Euphrosyne to try, leaving a paper of sweetmeats on her table for that purpose.
From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau
