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sweetmeat

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sweet·meat  (swtmt)
n.
A sweet delicacy, such as a piece of candy or crystallized fruit.
sweetmeat
Noun
Old-fashioned a small delicacy preserved in sugar
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Noun1.sweetmeatsweetmeat - a sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry)
confection, sweet - a food rich in sugar
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At these words he uncovered the small cup which contained the substance so lauded, took a teaspoonful of the magic sweetmeat, raised it to his lips, and swallowed it slowly with his eyes half shut and his head bent backwards.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy 'lemon-stunners' - a local sweetmeat - he presented an oyster-knife at the twins!
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
Never suppose that she was a termagant or a shrew for all this; she had the kindliest heart in the world, and acted towards me in particular in a truly maternal manner, occasionally putting some little morsel of choice food,into my hand, some outlandish kind of savage sweetmeat or pastry, like a doting mother petting a sickly urchin with tarts and sugar plums.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
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