sweetmeat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++sweet·meat /ˈswiːtmiːt/ noun [countable] British English old-fashionedDF a sweet, or any food made of or preserved in sugar 糖果；甜食；蜜饯
Examples from the Corpus
sweetmeat• Benjamin hid it under his cloak and hurried back to his own chamber like a schoolboy who has stolen a sweetmeat.• He approached such matters slowly, obliquely, over wine and sweetmeats.• Servants circulated with wines and sweetmeats.• She garnished her built-up Trifle with strips of bright currant jelly, crystallised sweetmeats or flowers.• These electric sweetmeats are lurid bouquets in a garden of watts.• Maya counts four kinds of sweetmeats in Corning casseroles on an end table.• Wolsey finished the plate of sweetmeats and told us to sit.• Mrs White really enjoys going with it and serving quarters of sweetmeats in paper pokes.sweet·meat nounChineseSyllable
of any made or a food sweet, Corpus
sweetmeat
sweet‧meat /ˈswiːtmiːt/
noun [countable]
British English old-fashioned a sweet, or any food made of or preserved in sugar
sweet‧meat /ˈswiːtmiːt/
noun [countable]British English old-fashioned a sweet, or any food made of or preserved in sugar