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sweetmeat definition

sweet·meat (-mēt′)

noun

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

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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