Definition of "comfiture" []

• A confection, especially of preserved fruit. (noun)

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• "It didn't add to Missy's comfiture to know she had, in truth, harboured this ridiculed vision of herself."
• "Heroes, like gods, must have their own way; but against thee and thy confraternity of elders I would turn the closet-key, and your mouths might water over, but your tongues should never enter those little pots of comfiture."
• "Anon, the comfiture being well done, my wife and I took Mrs. Hunt at almost 9 at night by coach and carried"