confection
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kənˈfɛkʃən/
confection (plural confections)
- A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
- The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.
- The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
- The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
- The defense attorney maintained that the charges were a confection of the local police.
- (dated) An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
- (dated) Something, such as a garment or a decoration, seen as very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also seen as impractical or non-utilitarian.
- 2007, Susan Sizemore, Primal Desires
- She found a sexy, lacy confection in a lingerie drawer and quickly slipped into it.
- 2007, Susan Sizemore, Primal Desires
- (pharmacology) A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
- French: confection, bonbon
- German: Konfekt, Bonbon
- Portuguese: confeito
- Russian: сладость
- Spanish: confección, hechura
confection (confections, present participle confectioning; past and past participle confectioned)
- To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
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