comfit
verb
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L331196 on Wikidata ↗noun
- type of candy
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmfɪt/ / /ˈkʌmfɪt/
noun
Etymology: Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques.
- A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force.
“A black and white comfit of a man with a chin shaped like a spade, doorstop for a nose..”
verb
Etymology: From Old French confit (“preserved fruit”), from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of confect, confetto, confit, and konfyt. Compare confit.
- To make into a dry sugared confection.
“17th c, Abraham Cowley, The First Nemeæan Ode of Pindar: The Muse, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets, Volume 5, 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.”