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confiture

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con·fi·ture  (knf-chr)
n.
A confection, preserve, or jam.

[French, from Old French, from confit, confection; see comfit.]

confiture [ˈkɒnfɪˌtjʊə]
n
(Cookery) a confection, preserve of fruit, etc.
[from French, from Old French confire to prepare, from Latin conficere to produce; see confect]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.confiture - preserved or candied fruit
confection, sweet - a food rich in sugar
candied fruit, crystallized fruit, succade - fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals
conserve, conserves, preserves, preserve - fruit preserved by cooking with sugar


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After several vain attempts to comprehend the motives of these two droll old creatures for inviting me to join them at their gouter, I at last fairly gave it up, and resigning myself to inevitable mystification, I sat and looked first at one, then at the other, taking care meantime to do justice to the confitures, cakes, and coffee, with which they amply supplied me.
 
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