A sweetmeat made of some fruit, root, etc., preserved with sugar; now usually a small round or oval mass of sugar enclosing a caraway seed…
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > drop, lozenge, or comfit (17) comfit1334 A sweetmeat made of some fruit, root, etc., preserved with sugar; now usually a small round or oval mass of sugar enclosing a caraway seed… pastille1451 A small, flat, usually round sweet, often coated with sugar and sometimes medicated; a lozenge. Any sweet of a similar shape. table1580 A small cake of some drug or confection; = tablet, n. 3. Obsolete. confect1587 A sweetmeat made of fruit, seed, etc., preserved in sugar; a comfit. violet tables1620 lozenges made from violets and sugar. sugar-pluma1668 A small round or oval sweetmeat, made of boiled sugar and variously flavoured and coloured; a comfit. plum1694 = sugar-plum, n. 1. Obsolete. rare. nonpareil1697 Originally: any of various kinds of small sweet. Now also: (spec. in plural) (chiefly U.S.) short strands or particles of coloured sugar… rose drop1727 A type of rose-flavoured lozenge or sweet. lemon-drop1807 a sugar-plum flavoured with lemon. drop1818 Applied to various objects resembling a drop of liquid in size, shape, or pendent character. A lozenge or sugar-plum, originally of spherical form… jujube1835 A lozenge, made of gum-arabic, gelatin, etc., flavoured with, or in imitation of, the fruit (sense 1). pear drop1852 A pear-shaped sweet, esp. a boiled sweet flavoured with amyl acetate (Jargonelle pear essence). pandrop1877 A hard, white, peppermint-flavoured sweet shaped like a slightly flattened sphere. conversation lozenge1905 a lozenge with an inscribed motto. cushion1906 A sweetmeat in the shape of a cushion. fruit drop1907 a fruit-flavoured sweet. |
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