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Confectionery   /kənfˈɛkʃənˌɛri/   Listen
Confectionery

noun
1.
Candy and other sweets considered collectively.
2.
A confectioner's shop.  Synonyms: candy store, confectionary.
3.
The occupation and skills of a confectioner.





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"Confectionery" Quotes from Famous Books



... the elder Kaufmann had been a candy manufacturer with a modest trade on the East Side. Young Houghton had taken the agency of a glucose firm. The disposal of this product had brought the two together, with the result that a partnership had been formed to carry on a wholesale confectionery business. Success in this venture had led to new and more ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various
... circuitous route through the city they turned into a narrow street and stopped before a house partly confectionery and partly tobacco shop. ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... memorable. Eppie, the confectionery man, picking his teeth in his empty shop at the foot of the hill, threw away his toothpick and went to the kitchen to tell his wife that The Towers had won, and business for the rest of the afternoon ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various
... cooked baby brought to the table. Eggs are used in some of their cooking; they are also served in various ways. Their bread and pastry cannot be excelled anywhere. The dessert consists of a large variety of nuts, confectionery, and fruits. From two to five o'clock guests are entertained with music in the beautiful hotel gardens, where fountains are playing, sending water out in the form of leaves, umbrellas, hats, rings, and other interesting forms. After the music is over some indulge in games, others ...
— A California Girl • Edward Eldridge
... Beer saloons, cheap grocery stores, carts against the curbstones with their shafts pointing skyward, and troops of children on the sidewalk, marked the increasing poverty and density of the population. Millard wondered at the display of trinkets and confectionery in the shop-windows, not knowing that those whose backs are cheaply clad crave ornaments, and those whose bellies lack bread are ravenous ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston


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