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Fine once to cry madly for sweets?
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confectionery
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a food rich in sugar [syn: sweet , confection ] a confectioner's shop [syn: candy store ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A wide range of confectionery and ice-cream is sold from the Riverside Theatre Shop before the show and during the interval. ▪ Always a crowd at the local confectionery . ▪ But there has been a good deal less successful cross-border ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Confectionery , also called sweets or candy is sweet food. The term varies among English-speaking countries. In general, though, confectionery is divided into two broad and somewhat overlapping categories, bakers' confections and sugar confections. Bakers' ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confectionery \Con*fec"tion*er*y\, n. Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies. A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) foodstuff that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candy, sweetmeats and confections collectively. 2 (context uncountable English) The business or occupation of manufacture confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner. ...
Usage examples of confectionery.
Harris 1 Butler 17 Guides 12 Waiters 4 Surgeons 1 Footman 1 Geologist 1 Barber 1 Botanist 1 Head Cook 3 Chaplains 9 Assistants 15 Barkeepers 1 Confectionery Artist 1 Latinist TRANSPORTATION, ETC.
This is the Italian pignolia, and you may buy them in the confectionery stores in this country.
With your new reputation as the Confectionery Casanova, you might become the hero of the Convention.
These will please the ladies at home very greatly, and, if the children are at the same time abundantly supplied with fruits, nuts, cakes, and any little ornamental articles of confectionery which are of a nature to be unostentatiously removed, the kindhearted parent will make a whole household happy, without any additional expense beyond the outlay for his ticket.
But for the rest, since you did me great service the other night, go in peace, and all the confectionery of the Palace will be ordered at your shop.
When he entered upon his consulship he threw presents to the populace to be scrambled for, no mere pieces of silver and gold, indeed, or confectionery or little animals, but fatted cattle and camels and asses and slaves, declaring that this was an imperial custom.
So skillful were his confectioners and dairymen, that all the various kinds of food that were served by his cooks, either meat-cooks or fruit-cooks, they also would serve up, making them now out of confectionery or again out of milk-products.
As I feasted on my drink I sensed the hum, the confectionery of a feminine presence.
Before them stood a tower of honest, lichen-stained blocks of stonenot pink confectionery that dissolved if somebody stumbled down the stairs.
The confectionery she bought for herself looked dry enough to be forty years old, too.
I waited until the man was well inside the shop, scrambled up into the van (no easy task for a pup) and fussily sniffed my way along the delicious racks of confectionery.
A certain attractive little shop, where confectionery, baseballs, stationery, and picture papers were sold, was a favorite loafing place for some of the boys till the rule forbidding it was made, because in the rear of the shop was a beer and billiard saloon.
Women were the most delightful confectioneries he knew, and he couldn't understand anybody who hadn't a sweet tooth.