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kissing comfits

kissing comfits is the plural of kissing comfit.

Meaning of kissing comfit

Noun

kissing comfit (plural kissing comfits)

  1. (obsolete) A perfumed sugar-plum previously used to sweeten the breath.
    • 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 herec. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about kissing comfits

What is kissing comfits the plural of?
Kissing comfits is the plural of kissing comfit.

Words near kissing comfits in the dictionary

  1. kissing booths
  2. kissing bridge
  3. kissing bug
  4. kissing bugs
  5. kissing comfit
  6. kissing comfits
  7. kissing cousin
  8. kissing cousins
  9. kissing dance
  10. kissing dances
  11. kissing disease

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