candied fruit
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- noun
- /ˈkændid frut/
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fruta confitada
- Packed like candied fruits in a fruitcake, the guide
- mixed candied fruit
- studded with candied fruit
Examples
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The cake was decorated with candied fruit for a festive touch.
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You know how much I like candied fruits with spiced sugar cakes.
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And candied fruits with spiced sugar cakes?
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They were in the middle of making fruitcakes, and Jean started helping, cutting up the candied fruit.
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She loved to bake cookies with candied fruit mixed into the dough.
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For the holiday feast, they served a platter of candied fruit alongside the main dishes.
Synonyms
Fruit cooked in sugar syrup and coated with sugar
Pieces of fruit cooked and coated with sugar to decorate cakes
Fruit or nuts coated in sugar syrup to preserve and sweeten them
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Morphology
The meaning 'fruit preserved in sugar syrup' is directly and compositionally derived from 'candied' (preserved or cooked in sugar) modifying 'fruit' (edible fruit). This adjective + noun pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand the MWE.
Etymology
The term candied fruit comes from a simple kitchen method: cooks heat fruit in sugar so the sugar soaks into the fruit and makes it sweet and shiny, turning the fruit into candied pieces. So candied fruit today means fruit preserved in sugar and used as a 'sweet treat' or in baking.