kissing comfit
English
Noun
kissing comfit (plural kissing comfits)
- (obsolete) A perfumed sugar-plum previously used to sweeten the breath.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene v]:
- let it thunder to the tune of Green Sleeves; hail kissing-comfits, and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here
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References
- kiss in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913