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confit

[kawn-fee] Origin

con·fit

[kawn-fee]
noun French Cookery.
duck or goose cooked in its own fat and preserved.

Origin:
< French; see comfit
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Confit is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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confit (kɔ̃fi)
 
n
cookery a preserve: a confit of duck
 
[literally: preserve]

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confit
obs. form of comfit.
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