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confectioner
[ kuhn-fek-shuh-ner ]
noun
- a person who makes or sells candies and, sometimes, ice cream, cakes, etc.
confectioner
/ kənˈfɛkʃənə /
noun
- a person who makes or sells sweets or confections
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Word History and Origins
Origin of confectioner1
First recorded in 1585–95; confection + -er 1
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Example Sentences
She stopped at a confectioner's and ordered a huge box of bonbons for the children in Iberville.
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Needless to add that this is ambitious confectioner's verse, intentionally nonsensical.
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All over London there are coffee-houses, tobacco-shops, and confectioner-looking shops, whose real use is to be haunts of vice.
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Add nuts and cherries cut in small pieces and spread half an inch thick on a pan or slab sprinkled with confectioner's sugar.
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Upon removing from the oven, brush with confectioner's sugar moistened with enough water to allow it to spread.
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