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Webster 1913 Edition


Comfiture

Com′fi-ture

(?; 135)
,
Noun.
[F.
confiture
; cf. LL.
confecturae
sweetmeats,
confectura
a preparing. See
Comfit
, and cf.
Confiture
.]
See
Comfit
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Comfiture

COMFITURE

,
Noun.
A dry sweet-meat; any kind of fruit or root preserved with sugar and dried.

Definition 2024


comfiture

comfiture

English

Noun

comfiture (plural comfitures)

  1. (obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
    • 1635, John Donne, Loves Usury:
      Onely let mee love none, no, not the sport / From country grasse, to comfitures of Court [...].