"kissing comfit" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: kissing comfits [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} kissing comfit (plural kissing comfits)
  1. (obsolete) A perfumed sugar-plum previously used to sweeten the breath. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-kissing_comfit-en-noun-yFTJ9Xm2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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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        "(obsolete) A perfumed sugar-plum previously used to sweeten the breath."
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