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sweetmeat

noun

ˈswēt-ˌmēt

Definition of sweetmeat

as in confection

a food having a high sugar content 16th-century Naples carried on a vast export trade in silks and sweetmeats

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Recent Examples of sweetmeat Peer at the pendulous breasts on a Medici workshop ewer or those on a screeching siren centered on an 18th-century scalloped sweetmeat dish. — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025 But street food vendors — with their pungent salads, oodles of noodles, and coconut sweetmeats — have lately become the target of some of the capital’s planners. — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019 So off the two ran to Loxy’s den, where Loxy began to speed-read his handy-dandy cookbook about slicing and dicing sweetmeat and Tex Mex green beans and chugalugging them down with mai tais, Tia Marias, pale ale and near beer. — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2019 In a tiny shop by the gate, the delicious sweetmeat has been made every day for the past 164 years with a recipe so secret the original handwritten copy is kept in the vault of a local bank. — Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018

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India took up Deco in the late 1920s, and confections like Jodhpur’s Umaid Bhawan Palace and the New Palace in Morbi were crafted to please maharajahs.

— Sarah Medford, Architectural Digest, 14 Oct. 2026
For a caffeine fix paired with handmade confections, indulge in the Dolce Vita Afternoon Tea on weekends.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026

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