confectionery
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3.9
- noun
- /kənˈfɛkʃənəri/
- UK
:
tienda de dulces
- In 1769, she opened a confectionery shop in Manchester and published one of the great eighteenth-century cookbooks, The Experienced English Housekeeper, which gave a distinctive recipe for a wedding cake.
- confectionery shop
- confectionery store
Examples
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Next to the lake is a playground along with a small confectionery kiosk where the prisoners of New Way can buy their children sweets and pop as they play on the swings and slides.
Blog text (12) -
Phil and Rita are sitting at a table in a small confectionery, tasting chunks of different flavored fudge.
Fiction book (1993) -
All good confectionery stores have it.
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Pretty, Layer Cake Shop and Confectionery House.
Blog text (2) -
That is not proper behavior in Gamer's Confectionery, and I was ashamed for May Anna.
Fiction book (1990) -
Because I was one of the few students who lived on the other side of town, I often played with my paper dolls while I ate the salami sandwich my mother packed and the bottle of pop I bought cold from the cooler of a nearby confectionery.
Fiction book (1991) -
I bought some chocolate and gummy bears at the local confectionery after school.
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The confectionery on Main Street has a wonderful selection of handmade chocolates.
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We celebrated her birthday with a cake from the nearby confectionery known for its delicious desserts.
Synonyms
17
1.0
A shop that sells candy and other sweets
1
3.2
A shop that sells sweets like chocolate and toffees
Surface Forms
Morphology
confectionery = confection (transparent) = confection + ery
The '-ery' suffix commonly forms nouns for shops or places, so 'confectionery' as a shop selling sweets is a regular derivation.
Etymology
Confectionery comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and ficere 'to make', and it once named foods that cooks carefully 'made together'; a confectionery shop is simply the place that sells those made sweets.