as in confection
a food having a high sugar content 16th-century Naples carried on a vast export trade in silks and sweetmeats

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Recent Examples of sweetmeat Peer at the pendulous breasts on a Medici workshop ewer or those on a screeching siren centered on an 18th-century scalloped sweetmeat dish. Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025 But street food vendors — with their pungent salads, oodles of noodles, and coconut sweetmeats — have lately become the target of some of the capital’s planners. BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019 So off the two ran to Loxy’s den, where Loxy began to speed-read his handy-dandy cookbook about slicing and dicing sweetmeat and Tex Mex green beans and chugalugging them down with mai tais, Tia Marias, pale ale and near beer. Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2019 In a tiny shop by the gate, the delicious sweetmeat has been made every day for the past 164 years with a recipe so secret the original handwritten copy is kept in the vault of a local bank. Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweetmeat
Noun
  • While traditions like dyeing eggs, egg hunts and big family meals may look different from family to family, one thing remains true: people love to celebrate Easter with candy and confections.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
  • With flavors like Rainbow Superpower, Very Berry Lemonade and Unicorn, popsicle entrepreneurs Erik Brust and Connor Wray know how to channel their inner Willy Wonka, but their factory in Elk River, Minnesota is strictly for frozen confections.
    Chloe Sorvino, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • In March, with Easter around the corner, trending purchases included a crock pot for hosting as well as candy like gummy clusters and ring lollipops.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2025
  • Though really, adjacent seems to better describe Karl, scion of a wealthy Cincinnati family that built its fortune on candy.
    John Birdsall June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025

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“Sweetmeat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweetmeat. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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