[
US
/kənˈfɛkʃənɝ/
]
[ UK /kənfˈɛkʃənɐ/ ]
[ UK /kənfˈɛkʃənɐ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who makes candies and other sweets
How To Use confectioner In A Sentence
- Take the white of one egg, and measure just as much cold water; mix the two well, and stir stiff with confectioners 'sugar; add a little flavoring, vanilla, or almond, or pistache, and, for some candies, color with a tiny speck of fruit paste. A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl
- And I dubitate as to your diet-loaves and confectionery suiting you better than a slice of chine or sirloin, for you have a pale cheek and a pensive eye that smite me to the heart. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
- Efforts by tobacco companies to stop confectioners selling candy cigarettes in packs resembling cigarette brands seem to have been minimal.
- Casey James Confectionery Store has sold sweets and candies on St Mary's Street, off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, since 1954.
- Secondly, I would like to point out that we are not talking about sweeties, confectionery, or cakes, but about medicines and pharmaceuticals.
- He travelled each morning with bread supplies for Port-laoise but in the afternoons he travelled on the country byroads bringing Brad-bury's breads and confectioneries to rural shops.
- The idea to start manufacturing their own confectionery formed when they started giving their own handmade chocolates to friends as Christmas presents.
- Most customers at the shop, which resembles a modern art gallery more than a confectioner's, defended the brothers. Times, Sunday Times
- To serve the dessert, whip the cream with the confectioners' sugar.
- Never mind that this was originally a pagan festival; the taint of necromancy (communing with the dead) has been overpowered by a commercialised confectionery fest.