sweetmeat

noun

sweet·meat | \ ˈswēt-ˌmēt

Definition of sweetmeat

: a food rich in sugar: such as

a : a candied or crystallized fruit

b : candy, confection

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16th-century Naples carried on a vast export trade in silks and sweetmeats

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So off the two ran to Loxy’s den, where Loxy began to speed-read his handy-dandy cookbook about slicing and dicing sweetmeat and Tex Mex green beans and chugalugging them down with mai tais, Tia Marias, pale ale and near beer. — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Once upon a rhyme time: the tale of Chicken Licken," 6 July 2019 In a tiny shop by the gate, the delicious sweetmeat has been made every day for the past 164 years with a recipe so secret the original handwritten copy is kept in the vault of a local bank. — Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, "Britain’s Lake District Was Immortalized by Beatrix Potter, But Is Its Future in Peril?," 20 Apr. 2018

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More Definitions for sweetmeat

sweetmeat

noun

old-fashioned : a piece of candy or a piece of fruit covered with sugar

sweetmeat

noun

sweet·meat | \ ˈswēt-ˌmēt

: a food (as a piece of candy or candied fruit) rich in sugar