[ UK /swˈiːtmiːt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry)
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How To Use sweetmeat In A Sentence

  • asked the Countess, hoping to give him a sweetmeat or money to alleviate his evident suffering. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Rum, Tongues, Hams, Beef, Geese, Turkes and Fowls both drest and raw, with many luxuries of the table as sweetmeats, pickles & . . . A Renegade History of the United States
  • When we had finished our sweetmeats or fruit she would accompany us to the stoep, bidding us thank our mother for her gift and sending quaint, old-fashioned messages to her and the Father. Then she would turn and enter the house, closing the door behind, so that it became once more a place of mystery.
  • Finally, ‘sweetmeats’ like halva and burfi can often round off a festive meal.
  • This involved all kinds of sweetmeats, tarts, spiced cakes, and gingerbread, consumed with sweet wines.
  • It has some trade in a pretty but not valuable “seaweed,” or variegated lacquer, called Aomori lacquer, but not actually made there, its own speciality being a sweetmeat made of beans and sugar. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
  • The name was given to these beds from their resemblance to a sweetmeat, known in Dutch as "banket," resembling almond hard-bake. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
  • Not that these nuns are not good cooks and bakers: witness the delicate sweetmeats, biscuits and pastry they offer to strangers on such festival days as the one just described, the fruit-preserves in blocks sold for their sustenance by the nuns at Funchal, Madeira, and the fairy frostwork of sugar seen on great occasions in French convents. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
  • Tell the bearer not to forget to bring me a fairing, which is some ginger-bread, sweetmeat, hunting-nuts, and a pocket-book. Highways & Byways in Sussex
  • They had not found a real place in a set meal, except among the miscellaneous sweetmeats offered as dainties at the end.
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