Crossword clues for confiture
confiture
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confiture \Con"fi*ture\ (?; 135), n. [F. See Confiture.]
Composition; preparation, as of a drug, or confection; a
sweetmeat. [Obs.] ``Confitures and pies.''
--Bacon.
Wiktionary
n. A preserve or candied fruit
WordNet
n. preserved or candied fruit
Wikipedia
__FORCETOC__ A confiture is any fruit jam, marmalade, paste, sweetmeat, or fruit stewed in thick syrup. Confit, the root of the word, comes from the French word confire which means literally "preserved"; a confit being any type of food that is cooked slowly over a long period of time as a method of preservation.
à confiture.JPG|A copper bowl for cooking confiture confiture (jam)
Usage examples of "confiture".
There were little sucking pigs in crisp suits of golden crackling, barons of beef running with their own rich juices set around with steaming ramparts of roasted potatoes, heaps of tender young pullets and pigeons and ducks and fat geese, five different types of fresh fish from the Atlantic, cooked five different ways, fragrant with the curries and spices of Java and Kandy and Further India, tall pyramids of the huge claw less crimson lobsters that abounded in this southern ocean, a vast array of fruits and succulent vegetables from the Company gardens, and sherbets and custards and sugar dumplings and cakes and trifles and confitures and every sweet delight that the slave chefs in the kitchens could conceive.
Ou,' he added, 'le Pot a Confiture, which is what they're beginning to call him in the Surete.