confiture
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of confiture
Example Sentences
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You could have some of that good bread with Plugra butter and housemade confiture or a Jerusalem bagel to eat with labneh garnished with olive oil and za’atar.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2015
To order, e-mail I just ordered this month’s Tell Tale Society package, and am alternating between the quince-caramelized honey cake, the fresh walnut and yuzu torrone and the spruce confiture de lait.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2010
There is a convent near Brisbane, Australia, where the nuns serve visitors a specialty of their religious house: confiture of prickly pear.
From Time Magazine Archive
They gave us a delicate white wine made in the neighbourhood, an agreeable beverage, which, we thought, resembled Chablais; and a confiture of cherries preserved in jelly, which was exquisite.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas
I look on the mess-tins which held the confiture and almost weep—because it's all eaten.
From The Red Horizon by MacGill, Patrick
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