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
Sister Célestine had invented a new kind of comfit which she begged Euphrosyne to try, leaving a paper of sweetmeats on her table for that purpose.
From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau
"What is that to me?" cried the proud Veronese, she who had broken the comfit dish.
From International Short Stories: French by A. Cheneviere
She coaxed me to endure, and called me her little Miss Honey-bee, but would not promise me a comfit; so I ran away before my cap was tied on.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
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