: a confection of nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
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Top with remaining 1/2 cup apples and 1/2 cup nougat bars.—Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025 True, this area is so palpably pretty its image graces containers of chewy nougats and 1,000-piece brainteasers.—Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 3 Sep. 2025 The wine features aromas of peach, nectarine, almond nougat, and crushed wet stone.—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025 The recall covers the 6.35 oz versions of Tony’s Dark Almond Sea Salt bar and Everything Bar (milk chocolate, caramel, pretzel, almond, nougat and sea salt).—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nougat
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French, from Occitan, from Old Occitan nogat, from noga nut, from Vulgar Latin *nuca, from Latin nuc-, nux — more at nut
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