单词 | sweetmeat |
释义 | sweetmeat (once / 3040 pages) n WORD FAMILY sweetmeat: sweetmeats USAGE EXAMPLESAll week Beatrice and the chambermaid, Sara, had been at work in the kitchen, preparing pastries and sweetmeats for Lady Isobel’s feast on Yule night. Malinda Lo, Ash(2009) For dessert, they scooped the sweetmeat from coconut shells, licking the juice from their fingers. Libba Bray, Beauty Queens(2011) And he was giving her a poke of sweetmeats he had bought for his wife. Esther Hoskins Forbes, Johnny Tremain(1943) n a sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry) Hyper confection, sweet a food rich in sugar |
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