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Turkish delight

noun

  1. a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.


Turkish delight

noun

  1. a jelly-like sweet flavoured with flower essences, usually cut into cubes and covered in icing sugar
“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 Turkish delight1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences

Field, an estimator in the construction industry, consumed 10,000 calories during his record run, made up of carbohydrate-rich gels, chocolate, peanut butter and Turkish Delight.

From BBC

Down a cobblestone street in Nablus’ Old City, at the entrance of the tiny two-room workshop of the Ayad Sweets Factory, Amjad Ayad stood slicing a sheet of strawberry-flavored Turkish delight into strips — part of an 8-ton shipment he used to send to Gaza every few weeks but that has since been canceled.

“All of those orders — canceled. The amount you see here, it’s to keep us a little bit busy, but really it’s just to occupy our time,” he said, his face covered with so much starch to keep the Turkish delight from sticking to his skin that his black eyelashes had turned white.

Tools used for making Turkish delight.

Amjad Ayad, in rear, spreads out gelatin for making Turkish delight at his family’s factory in the Old City of Nablus.

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