sweetmeat
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noun
1.
a sweet delicacy, prepared with sugar, honey, or the like, as preserves, candy, or, formerly, cakes or pastry.
2.
Usually, sweetmeats. any sweet delicacy of the confectionery or candy kind, as candied fruit, sugar-covered nuts, sugarplums, bonbons, or balls or sticks of candy.
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| a sweetened delicacy, such as a preserve, sweet, or, formerly, a cake or pastry | |
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Sweetmeat
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Example sentences
Sweetmeat made from refined flour, sugar, food color and fried in ghee.
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