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confectioneress en · NOUN

Etymology

From confectioner + -ess.

Meanings

1. (dated, rare) A female confectioner.
   • ...who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners... 1857, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch:
   • The cook smiled and remarked to the confectioneress who was sifting flour in the kitchen, that that was a smart baba. 1877, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Christabel Rose Coleridge, Arthur Innes, Monthly Packet:

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