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CONFITURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does confiture mean?
• CONFITURE (noun)
The noun CONFITURE has 1 sense:
1. preserved or candied fruit
Familiarity information: CONFITURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Preserved or candied fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("confiture" is a kind of...):
confection; sweet (a food rich in sugar)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confiture"):
candied fruit; crystallized fruit; succade (fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals)
conserve; conserves; preserve; preserves (fruit preserved by cooking with sugar)
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