| 词汇 | comfit |
| 释义 | comfit noun[ C ] old useuk /ˈkʌm.fɪt/ us /ˈkʌm.fɪt/ an old-fashioned sweet made of a nut, seed, or piece of dried fruit with a hard sugar covering: 康菲蜜饯，康菲糖（由坚果、瓜子或干果加上硬糖制成的一种老式糖果） She brought out a box of comfits.她买了一盒康菲蜜饯。 TorriPhoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages UK Crowned with its frothy whip and scattered with coloured comfits, the trifle was a very pretty dish for a party. The dragee is a direct descendant of the English comfit, which, sadly, is no longer with us. Alice presented the animals with comfits from her pocket. The picture shows blue-and-white porcelain dishes filled with comfits and sweetmeats. Sweets almond paste baking chocolate barley sugar bitter chocolate bittersweet chocolate confectionery cooking chocolate cotton candy couverture cracknel liquorice lollipop lolly marchpane marron glacé snow cone sourball spun sugar stick of rock sugared almond Examples of comfitcomfit Their origin is uncertain, but they may have evolved out of the pharmaceutical use of sugar, as they were a miniature version of comfits. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Anise was used to flavor fish and chicken dishes, and its seeds were served as sugar-coated comfits. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A late medieval recipe for comfits is based on anise seeds, and suggests also making comfits with fennel, caraway, coriander, and diced ginger. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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