sweetmeat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small sweet delicacy, such as a confection, candied fruit, or preserve

   The host offered rose-flavored sweetmeat after dinner.

From sweet + meat in the older broad sense of "food." The compound originally meant any sweet food or delicacy, not animal flesh, and became especially associated with confectionery and preserved fruit.

Topics

External links

• Cambridge Dictionary
• Wiktionary
• Google Images