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Synonyms for confections
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuh n-fek-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : kənˈfɛk ʃən |
Définition of confections
Origin :- mid-14c., confescioun, from Old French confeccion (12c., Modern French confection) "drawing up (of a treaty, etc.); article, product," in pharmacology, "mixture, compound," from Late Latin confectionem (nominative confectio) "a confection," in classical Latin, "a making, preparing," noun of action from confect-, past participle stem of conficere "to prepare," from com- "with" (see com-) + facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Originally "the making by means of ingredients," sense of "candy or light pastry" predominated from 16c.
- noun sweet food
- She had decided that it was time to write on the subject of Indian confections.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- The dessert may consist of ices, fruit, pastry, or confections.
- Extract from : « The Etiquette of To-day » by Edith B. Ordway
- There was an immense buffet, with fruits and confections, and a place where books were sold.
- Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin
- Helena moved away and pretended to be busy with the material for her confections.
- Extract from : « The Lady and the Pirate » by Emerson Hough
- Another, with a basket full of nut-shells, came to sell him confections.
- Extract from : « Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers » by Various
- The general returned to his confections, and his aide-de-camp to the barley-sugar.
- Extract from : « A Winter Amid the Ice » by Jules Verne
- If genuine, it has attained a greater age than most confections of its class.
- Extract from : « Rambles in Brittany » by Francis Miltoun
- Various kinds of cakes and confections were also sold at these shops.
- Extract from : « The Private Life of the Romans » by Harold Whetstone Johnston
- She may butter that bread and share the confections, by her labour, if it be productive.
- Extract from : « The home » by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- And that young person who brought in the confections, who is she, my good friend?
- Extract from : « Quentin Durward » by Sir Walter Scott
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