confectionery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   sweets, chocolates, candies, and other foods made chiefly with sugar, considered collectively

   The shop imports chocolate and confectionery from several European producers.

2. 2
   noun

   a shop or business where sweets and similar products are made or sold

   A family-run confectionery has occupied the corner for nearly a century.

3. 3
   noun

   the craft, trade, or industry of making sweets and confections

   She trained in confectionery before opening a chocolate workshop.

Formed from confectioner + -y, naming both the trade and its products. Confection comes through Old French from Latin conficere ("prepare, bring together, complete"), from con- ("together") + facere ("make"). Its English food sense narrowed toward prepared sweets.

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