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  • noun Plural form of sweetmeat.

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Examples

  • Now I have in it what I call sweetmeats for the Chancery-counselor Thomsen: old knives of sacrifice, coins and rings, which I have found in the horse-pond and up yonder in the cairns: not a quarter of a yard below the turf we found one pot upon another; round each a little inclosure of stones -- a flat stone as covering, and underneath stood the pot, with burnt giants 'bones, and a little button or the blade of a knife.

    O. T. a Danish Romance 1840

  • When I was little I didn't understand the difference between mincemeat and "sweetmeats".

    A Tale of Two Tarts Brilynn 2006

  • Although during the remainder of the Company's tenure in Virginia, until June 1624, transportation of supplies, supposedly was restricted to the magazine ships, the vessels of private adventurers often reached the Colony with articles which were in the luxury class such as sweetmeats, sack (wine from southern Europe) and strong waters (liquor).

    Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

  • The anecdotes, to borrow a phrase from Addison, are the "sweetmeats" of the book, but the caution with which they are admitted, adds to their worth.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832 Various

  • A Brahman should not eat even _pakki rasoi_ or food cooked without water, such as sweetmeats and cakes fried in butter or oil, except when cooked by his own family and in his own home.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • "It's a kind of sweetmeats that is kept for company, Miss Janet," replied Miss Fortune with a darkened brow.

    The Wide, Wide World 1892

  • Several trays of Mayndhie are brought, with the other requisites for the usual forms of marriage gifts, such as sweetmeats, dried fruits, garlands of sweet jasmine, imitative beds of flowers, composed of uberuck: in some of the flowers, fireworks were concealed, to be let off in the quadrangle.

    Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885

  • I abstain from quoting the "sweetmeats," in Captain MacTurk's phrase, which have been exchanged by the combatants.

    Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

  • The elephants rivaled the beggars in their importunities, being accustomed to receive unlimited delicacies from visitors, such as sweetmeats, cakes, candies, and the like, of which these creatures are immoderately fond.

    Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

  • "It's a kind of sweetmeats that is kept for company, Miss Janet," replied Miss Fortune, with a darkened brow.

    The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner 1852

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