The fruit or ‘seed’ of the caraway; also a sweetmeat or confection containing caraway-seeds. Obsolete except as Scottish carvy, n.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > caraway-seed sweets (4) caraway1557 The fruit or ‘seed’ of the caraway; also a sweetmeat or confection containing caraway-seeds. Obsolete except as Scottish carvy, n. carvya1665 = caraway, n., esp. (in plural) in sense 2, small confections containing caraway seeds. caraway-comfit1710 a sweetmeat containing caraway-seeds. meeting seed1851 dried aromatic seed (esp. aniseed, caraway, dill, or fennel) such as was formerly chewed at Nonconformist or Dissenting meetings. |
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