confectionary
Adjective
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Adjective
confectionary (not comparable)
- Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.
- confectionary wares
- Prepared as a confection.
- 1798, William Cowper, On Receipt of My Mother's Picture, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228072946/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/564.html line 60]
- Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, / The biscuit, or confectionary plum;
- 1798, William Cowper, On Receipt of My Mother's Picture, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228072946/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/564.html line 60]
- Russian: конди́терский
confectionary
- A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
- (obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
- (dated) A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
- (obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.
- He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. -- 1 Samuel viii. 13.
- (uncountable, rare) Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.
- Spanish: confites, confitería
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