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Comfit   Listen
verb
Comfit  v. t.  To preserve dry with sugar. "The fruit which does so quickly waste,... Thou comfitest in sweets to make it last."





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"Comfit" Quotes from Famous Books



... sweet-scented juices: works of art made to be destroyed. The guests breached a bastion, crunched a crusader and his horse and lance, or cracked a bishop, cope, chasuble, crosier and all, as remorselessly as we do a caraway comfit; sipping meanwhile hippocras and other spiced drinks, and Greek and Corsican wines, while every now and then little Turkish boys, turbaned, spangled, jewelled, and gilt, came offering on bended knee ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
 
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Words linked to "Comfit" :   tack, sweet, assemble, piece



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