succade

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.)

• IPA^(key): /səˈkeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

succade (countable and uncountable, plural succades)

1. Candied citrus peel (or, less commonly, other preserves).
   • 1542, Andrew Boorde, Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge:

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

2. (obsolete) A sweetmeat.
   • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

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

• sucket

• “succade”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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