succade

noun /səˈkeɪd/

1. Candied citrus peel (or, less commonly, other preserves).

   countable, uncountable

   He rootes of Borage and Buglosse soden tender , and made in a succade , doth ingender good blode

2. A sweetmeat.

   countable, obsolete, uncountable

   I found two Pots of very good Succades, or Sweet-meats.

Where it comes from

From Middle English socade, from Middle French succade (“sweet candied fruit”), sucrade, from Old Occitan sucrado (“sweet, sugary, sugared”), from past participle of sucra (“to sugar”), from sucre (“sugar”), from Old Italian zucchero. (See zucchero for additional etymology.)

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry succade (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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