comfit

American  

[kuhm-fit, kom-] / ˈkʌm fɪt, ˈkɒm- /

noun

1. a candy containing a nut or piece of fruit.

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comfit British  

/ ˈkʌmfɪt, ˈkɒm- /

noun

1. a sugar-coated sweet containing a nut or seed

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Etymology

Origin of comfit

1300–50; Middle English confit < Middle French < Latin confectum something prepared. See confect

Example Sentences

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

The great tigress instantly bounded forward like an obedient hound, and placed its fore-paws on her knees, while she playfully held a sugared comfit high above its head.

From Ardath by Corelli, Marie

But I am Corydon, I am not he, Though I no more that Corydon shall be To make a sugared comfit of my song.

From English Poems by Le Gallienne, Richard

Some one will have discovered a new comfit, and word will go round that Mademoiselle So-and-So, who is a great lady, has fallen in love with a poor gentleman.

From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell

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 Train, George Francis