comfiture

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Etymology

From French confiture, from Latin confectūra.

Pronunciation

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 []