sweetmeats

Example Sentences

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"Look to the bakemeats, good Angelica, Spare not for cost."

From The Setons by Douglas, O.

The mourner returned, bearing a laden tray, from which she removed the funeral bakemeats and placed them limply on the table.

From A Damsel in Distress by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

The black and the bakemeats and the beer cost altogether £149 16s. 11d.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

For breakfast were furmety, eggs, and butter, and milk, for the women; cold bakemeats and ale for the men.”

From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace

John Chaucer died in 1366, and his thrifty widow hastened to marry Bartholomew Attechapel; “the funeral bakemeats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”

From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.