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sweetmeat
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
sweetmeat
(noun)
sweetmeat
/
ˈ
swiːtˌmiːt/
noun
plural
sweetmeats
sweetmeat
/
ˈ
swiːtˌmiːt/
noun
plural
sweetmeats
Britannica Dictionary definition of SWEETMEAT
[
count
]
old-fashioned
:
a piece of candy or a piece of fruit covered with sugar
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