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sweetmeat

[ sweet-meet ]

noun

  1. Archaic. a sweet delicacy, as a candy or candied fruit, or, originally, a cake or pastry.


sweetmeat

/ ˈswiːtˌmiːt /

noun

  1. a sweetened delicacy, such as a preserve, sweet, or, formerly, a cake or pastry
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sweetmeat1

First recorded before 1150; Old English swētmete, swōmete “delicacy” (not recorded in Middle English ); sweet, meat
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Example Sentences

When bits of sweetmeat lodged in the teeth, the sucket fork doubled as a nifty toothpick.

Most of these here are munching sweetmeats; they love them as children do, and the sweetmeat-seller never lacks trade.

Then we see a sweetmeat shop with a crowd outside and a cloud of flies bearing them company.

Did you ever consider that the only sweetmeat our forefathers had for thousands of years was wild honey?

She had made the sweetmeat herself, and had earned the money to buy a half-dozen tumblers, by braiding rugs for Mrs. Parshley.

Forbes laughed at the spectacle of a big, rich man pouting like a reluctant child against having a sweetmeat forced on him.

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