comfit

Synonyymisanakirja

comfit

jälkiruoka, makeinen, konvehti, leivonnainen, karkki, karamelli, namu, hedelmämakeinen, sokeroitu pähkinä, sekoittaa, valmistaa, yhdistää, asentaa, kasata, koota, liittää, harsia, kiinnittää, kursia.

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Englannin sanakirja

comfit englanniksi

1. A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.

2. Proverb, quoted in Robert Christy, Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages, New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1887, http://www.bartleby.com/89/1000.html

A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.

3. c. 1597, (w), (w), Act III, Scene 1, http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=henry4p1&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl

Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker's wife.

4. 1869, (w), "Perilous Play," http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0603031.txt

"Why, what are they?" she asked, looking at him askance. ¶ "Hashish; did you never hear of it?" ¶ "Oh, yes; it's that Indian stuff which brings one fantastic visions, isn't it? I've always wanted to see and taste it, and now I will," cried Belle, nibbling at one of the bean-shaped comfits with its green heart.

5. 1922, (w), The Story of Hassan of Baghdad and How he Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Act I, p. 17, https://archive.org/details/hassanstoryofhas00fl

But since I ate your present of comfits—and they were admirable comfits, and I ate them with speed—my heart is changed and inclined toward you, I know not why or how, except it be through magic.

6. puhekieltä To preserve dry with sugar.

7. 17th c, w:Abraham Cowley|Abraham Cowley, The First Nemeæan Ode of Pindar: The Muse, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets, Volume 5, https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BW87AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA302&dq=%22Thou+comfitest+in+sweets+to+make+it+last.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=d0xkVezJLMrn8AWZoIGQDA&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAAv=onepage&q=%22Thou%20comfitest%20in%20sweets%20to%20make%20it%20last.%22&f=false page 302,

The fruit which does ſo quickly waſte, // Men ſcarce can ſee it, much leſs taſte, // Thou comfiteſt in ſweets to make it laſt.

8. puhekieltä A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force.

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