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sweet⋅meat

[sweet-meet]
–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.

Origin:
bef. 1150; OE swētmete (not recorded in ME); see sweet, meat
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sweet·meat   (swēt'mēt')   
n.  A sweet delicacy, such as a piece of candy or crystallized fruit.
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