Confectionery vs Confectionary - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Foodstuffs]] that taste very sweet, taken as a group; [[candy, candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
(uncountable) The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.
Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.
Prepared as a confection.
* 1798 , , On Receipt of My Mother's Picture ,
A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
* {{quote-book, 1787, Miss Tully, chapter=February 10, 1787, Letters Written During a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli, year_published=1819, page=285
, passage=After the dishes of meat were removed, a dessert of Arabian fruits, confectionaries and sweetmeats was served: among the latter was the date bread.}}
(obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
(dated) A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
* {{quote-book, 1986, Penny Hayes, The Long Trail
, passage=They stopped at a confectionary where Blanche experienced her first ice cream.}}
(obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.
(uncountable, rare) Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.
Confectionary is a related term of confectionery.
As nouns the difference between confectionery and confectionary
is that confectionery is foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively while confectionary is a candy, sweetmeat; a confection.As an adjective confectionary is
relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.confectionery
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Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* candy (US), sweets (UK) * (business of manufacturing confectionery) sweet-making, sweet manufacture * (shop where confectionary is sold) confectioner's, candy store (US), sweet shop (UK)confectionary
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Adjective
(-)- confectionary wares
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- Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, / The biscuit, or confectionary plum;
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- He will take your daughters to be confectionaries , and to be cooks. --
