confectioneryn.
/kənˈfɛkʃənəri/ 1.
a. Things made or sold by a confectioner; a collective term for sweetmeats and confections.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun]
confection1393
sweetmeat?a1500
junkery1509
conceit1525
banqueta1533
junketry1599
sweet1660
spice1674
knick-knack1682
confectionery1769
confiture1802
candy?1809
knick-knackery1813
mithai1824
dulce1834
sweet-stuff1835
bouchées1846
ket1979
society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > goods sold by other specific traders
cutlery1624
saltery ware1628
millinery1676
ironmongery1711
hardware1723
cheesemongery1760
confectionery1769
hosiery1790
hattery1824
drysaltery1847
shoemercery1862
drapery1897
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxx Ambre, muske, frankencense, gallia muscata and confection nere [sic].]
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper To Rdr. p. ii The Receipts for the Confectionary, are such as I daily sell in my own Shop.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. xi. 128 He pressed her to partake of a variety of confectioneries.
1891 N.E.D. at Confectionery Mod. Stalls on which all sorts of cheap confectionery were displayed.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 613 He having previously spotted on the printed pricelist..coffee 2d., confectionery do, and honestly well worth twice the money.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 837/2 The main ingredients in modern confectionery consist of sugar, brown and white, treacle [etc.].
b. A course of sweetmeats at dinner.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > course > [noun] > course after main
after-mess1489
banquet1523
after-course1580
fruit1587
dessert1600
sweet1832
confectionery1847
afters1909
pudding1934
follows1946
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred III. v. ii. 44 After confectionary..the chieftains praised God.
2. The art and business of a confectioner.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing confectionery > [noun]
confectioning1650
confectionery1743
1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. (advt.) Five Hundred new Receipts in Cookery, Confectionary, Pastry, Preserving, Conserving, and Pickling.
1872 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce (rev. ed.) 219 Gingerbread making and confectionery are now separate departments of the baker's art.
3. A confectioner's shop.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > baked goods or pastry
baker1548
pie house1589
baker's shop1593
bakery1598
cake house1641
pastry shop1656
bakehouse1714
bread shop1773
bakeshop1789
confectionery shop1801
confectionery1803
patisserie1824
cakery1841
bun-shop1889
pasticceria1921
konditorei1935
1803 E. S. Bowne Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago (1888) 156 I never go by a toy shop, or confectionery without longing to have them [sc. children] here.
1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 21 Jan. 6/4 Mrs. Jett started a confectionery at Lexington and afterward..she established millineries.
Compounds
a. attributive, as confectionery shop, etc.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > baked goods or pastry
baker1548
pie house1589
baker's shop1593
bakery1598
cake house1641
pastry shop1656
bakehouse1714
bread shop1773
bakeshop1789
confectionery shop1801
confectionery1803
patisserie1824
cakery1841
bun-shop1889
pasticceria1921
konditorei1935
1801 M. Edgeworth Angelina iv, in Moral Tales II. 94 Mrs. Bertrand kept a large confectionary and fruit-shop.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 342 Such..as were to be had of the confectionary shops.
b. attributive. Of a building or style of architecture: resembling an elaborate piece of confectionery. (Cf. quot. 1861 at confectionary adj. s.v. wedding-cake (wedding n.).)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > other styles
florida1706
massive1723
rounded1757
round-arched1782
castellar1789
baronial1807
rational1813
English colonial1817
massy1817
transitional1817
Scottish Baronial1829
rococo1830
flamboyant1832
Scotch Baronial1833
Churrigueresque1845
Russo-Byzantine1845
soaring1849
trenchant1849
vernacular1857
Scots Baronial1864
baroque1867
Perp.1867
rayonnant1873
Dutch colonial1876
Neo-Grec1878
rococoesque1885
Richardsonian1887
federal1894
organic1896
confectionery1897
European-style1907
postmodern1916
Lutyens1921
modern1927
moderne1928
functionalist1930
Williamsburg1931
Colonial Revival1934
packing case1935
Corbusian1936
lavatorial1936
pseudish1938
Adamesque1942
rationalist1952
Miesian1956
open-planned1958
Lutyensesque1961
façade1962
Odeon1964
high-tech1979
Populuxe1986
1897 Daily News 15 Sept. 8/3 This Muscovite style is at first disappointing... We are apt to be reminded by it of the wedding-cake and master works of confectionery architecture.
1910 T. E. Lawrence Let. 16 Dec. (1938) 92 The Turks, when they get a glorious broad wall-space..will insist on fretting the wall into little confectionery-arcades.
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