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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
confectioner
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
confectioner's sugar
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Equal pay claims were brought and lost by several groups of working women, bakers, confectioners and factory workers.
▪ Here there are famous department stores, fashion shops, retail shops with high quality goods, confectioners and pavement cafes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confectioner

Confectioner \Con*fec"tion*er\, n.

  1. A compounder. [Obs.]

    Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents.
    --Haywood.

  2. One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
confectioner

1590s, agent noun from confection.

Wiktionary
confectioner

n. A manufacturer of or dealer in confections.

WordNet
confectioner

n. someone who makes candies and other sweets [syn: candymaker]

Usage examples of "confectioner".

Margaret Sweet, the Eton pastry-cook and confectioner, finds her name united in bands of brass with Mr.

Her Grace, the pastrycook said, had partaken of several tarts, in common with the gentleman, who complimented him upon his excelling the Continental confectioner.

We went to my rooms, and I ordered the confectioner to get me a choice supper by midnight.

She lent her room in Soho Square to a confectioner who gave a ball and supper to a thousand persons at three guineas each.

Then I reduced them into a fine powder, and ordered the Jewish confectioner to mix the powder in my presence with a paste made of amber, sugar, vanilla, angelica, alkermes and storax, and I waited until the comfits prepared with that mixture were ready.

It seemed to say that the glittering shops of the jewelers, the milliners, the confectioners, the florists, the picture-dealers, the furriers, the makers of rare and costly antiquities, retail traders in luxuries of life, were beneath the notice of a house that had its foundations in the high finance, and was built literally and figuratively in the shadow of St.

When the other scholars carried their pocket-money to the fruit-sellers and confectioners at the temple-gates, he would buy geese, and, when his mother sent him a handsome sum, young gazelles, to offer to the Gods on the altars.

No confectioner in our native latitudes could have shown a finer dough.

Having thought it over, I called upon a Jewish confectioner whose daughter was a skilful embroiderer, and I made her embroider before me, on a bracelet of green satin, the four initial letters of our names, and make a very thin chain with the remainder.

I was stingy with them, and no one durst beg any from me, because I had said that they were very expensive, and that in all Corfu there was no confectioner who could make or physician who could analyse them.

Aunt Chloe whipped the cover off the bake-kettle, and disclosed to view a neatly-baked pound-cake, of which no city confectioner need to have been ashamed.

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.

The candy may still be had from our confectioners, but now containing no more of the plant Elecampane than there is of barley in Barley Sugar.

After four or five years, buildings decorated with it look as if theyve been dusted with confectioners sugar.

They are imported in large quantities from Syria and California, and are often used by confectioners in the place of Bitter Almonds.