comfiture
English edit
Etymology edit
From French confiture, from Latin confectūra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
comfiture (plural comfitures)
- (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 […]