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# comfit

«comfit» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small sweet made of a seed or nut, such as aniseed…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a comfit, comfits)

### meaning for a pupil

(old) A small sweet made of a seed or nut, such as aniseed, caraway or an almond, coated in hard sugar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comfit/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Comfits were eaten in Tudor and Victorian times, like sugared almonds or sprinkles today. In Alice in Wonderland, after the Caucus-race the Dodo says everybody has won and must have prizes, and Alice hands round a box of comfits from her pocket, one each; she gets her own thimble back as her prize. The scene is a joke about silly rules where everyone wins.

### examples

- Alice found a box of comfits in her pocket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comfit/#x1)
- Each animal got one comfit as a prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comfit/#x2)
- The comfits were a little wet from the salt water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comfit/#x3)
- A comfit is a seed or nut covered in sugar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comfit/#x4)
- Sugared almonds are a kind of comfit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comfit/#x5)
- The big birds complained they could not taste their comfits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comfit/#x6)

### note

Old-fashioned word; today we say sugared almonds, sugar-coated sweets or sprinkles. Countable: a comfit, comfits. Do not confuse with confetti (paper pieces) or comfort.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «comfit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comfit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.