Crossword-Solution: CONFITURE 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

After the meat came a Kunafah, fine vermicelli sweetened with honey, and sprinkled with powdered white sugar; several stews of apples and quinces; Muhallibah, a thin jelly made of rice, flour, milk, starch, and a little perfume; together with squares of Rahah,[FN#15] a confiture [p.257] highly prized in these regions, because it comes from Constantinople.

Sur le parquet, au milieu, un tas d'objets hétéroclites s'amoncelait; il y avait des mouchoirs, des cadres de photographies, des menus, des livres, des programmes, des lettres, et bien d'autres choses encore parmi lesquelles vosinaient un petit amour bouffi, en pâte tendre et un gros bocal à confiture vide dans lequel l'huissier avait eu la délicate attention de mettre l'eau et les poissons rouges de l'aquarium.

Whereat, seeing that entreaties were of no avail, we put our seditious and dangerous heads together and formulated a very great scheme; to wit, the lowering of an empty tin-pail about eight inches high, which tin-pail had formerly contained confiture, which confiture had long since passed into the guts of Monsieur Auguste, The Zulu, B., myself, and—as The Zulu’s friend—The Young Pole.

The "Virginia," being slightly scented, is known in France as _tabac à la confiture_, but large quantities are being imported from Liverpool expressly to satisfy Tommy Atkins.

Venizelos's hamper had yielded a box of fresh figs, a can of the honey of Hymettus, and a couple of bottles of Cretan wine, and the French officers had "anted up" cognac, some tins of _flageolet_ for salad, and a tumbler of _confiture_, and the English nurse had brought out the last of her Christmas plum-cake, and I had thrown in a loaf of Italian _pan-forte_ and a can of chocolates, the little crazy-legged camp-table had assumed a passing festal air.