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confectioner

[ kuhn-fek-shuh-ner ]

noun

  1. a person who makes or sells candies and, sometimes, ice cream, cakes, etc.


confectioner

/ kənˈfɛkʃənə /

noun

  1. 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.

Needless to add that this is ambitious confectioner's verse, intentionally nonsensical.

All over London there are coffee-houses, tobacco-shops, and confectioner-looking shops, whose real use is to be haunts of vice.

Add nuts and cherries cut in small pieces and spread half an inch thick on a pan or slab sprinkled with confectioner's sugar.

Upon removing from the oven, brush with confectioner's sugar moistened with enough water to allow it to spread.

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