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comfit
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Definition:nuts or dried fruit coated with sugar
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The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on the back.
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)
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croquant chocolate comfits
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Precedent inclined me toward ordering about as many pieces of sliced banana as would be required to button a fairly tall woman's princess frock all the way down her back, with plenty of sugar and cream, and likewise a large porringer of some standard glutinous cereal, to be followed by sausages with buckwheat cakes and a few odd kickshaws and comfits in the way of strawberry preserves and hot buttered toast and coffee that was half cream, and first one thing and then another.
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. One Third Off
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Other vendors came up; she stuffed my pockets with everything that they had, tied up in packets, comfits, sponge-cakes, sugar-sticks.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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a phial of aromatic (violet) comfits.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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