sweetmeat

(-mēt′)

noun

any sweet food or delicacy prepared with sugar or honey, as a cake, confection, preserve, etc.; specif., a candy, candied fruit, etc.

Origin: LME sweit meit < OE swetmete: see sweet & meat

See sweetmeat in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A sweet delicacy, such as a piece of candy or crystallized fruit.

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