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
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
As to the comfit, it was eaten by one of the dogs, who had come down earliest of all.
From The Brownies and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
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
The great tigress instantly bounded forward like an obedient hound, and placed its fore-paws on her knees, while she playfully held a sugared comfit high above its head.
From Ardath by Marie Corelli
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