Nougat

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  • noun. A confection made from a sugar or honey paste into which nuts are mixed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A confection made usually of chopped almonds and pistachio-nuts embedded in a sweet paste.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A confection of honey or sugar and roasted nuts, often with other ingredients.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
  • Word Usage
    "So I should have just gotten the nougat, but the nougat was the reach flavor to the gianduja standby."
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