Sweetmeats

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of sweetmeat form-of, plural

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"The servants, and the young ladies also, decked out the tree. On one branch they hung little nets, cut out of colored paper; every net was filled with sweetmeats; golden apples and walnuts hung down as if they grow there, and more than a hundred little candles, red, white, and blue, were fastened to the different boughs."

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