Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

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sweetmeat

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Definition:
a sugary treat; a confection

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“Now we shall have sweetmeats to eat,” said Mademoiselle Linon—and Levin drove off to buy sweetmeats.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)
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had already digested the sweetmeat, was looking forward to a big meal and had begun to fidget.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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Mr. Miles, the master, affirmed that he would do very well if he had fewer cakes and sweetmeats sent him from home;

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Their parents are suffered to see them only twice a year; the visit is to last but an hour; they are allowed to kiss the child at meeting and parting; but a professor, who always stands by on those occasions, will not suffer them to whisper, or use any fondling expressions, or bring any presents of toys, sweetmeats, and the like.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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