comfit
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And he bought a round red lacquered comfit dish with a cover, and in this he put sesame cakes and larded sweets and he put the box on the table.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
Then she had laughed; but a comfit dish of marvelous workmanship was shattered between her nervous fingers.
From International Short Stories: French by A. Cheneviere
But I am Corydon, I am not he, Though I no more that Corydon shall be To make a sugared comfit of my song.
From English Poems by Richard Le Gallienne
You expected me to protest it daily: to repeat the tale as a child repeats its lesson for a comfit.
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by J. N. Marchand
Brilliana clapped her hands like a child that has been promised some coveted comfit.
From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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