confectioner
a person who makes or sells candies and, sometimes, ice cream, cakes, etc.
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How to use confectioner in a sentence
Confectioners dust the beans with sugar between sprinklings of syrup.
Inside the technicolor factory where Jelly Belly makes its beans | Corinne Iozzio | February 22, 2022 | Popular-ScienceMother’s Day became an official holiday in 1914, and florists, greeting-card companies and confectioners quickly seized the commercial opportunity.
Too Many Moms Can't Afford Diapers for Their Kids. On Mother's Day, We Must Remember Their Need | Jennifer Randles | May 6, 2021 | TimeAlthough it’s a common commodity, the best chocolate doesn’t just taste better, it’s better for growers, roasters, producers, confectioners and the planet.
This Valentine’s Day, reach for a better box of chocolates | Daniela Galarza | January 31, 2021 | Washington PostThe confectioner also suggests to cut a chocolate piece in half and let it melt in the mouth to allow time for the flavors to develop.
She stopped at a confectioner's and ordered a huge box of bonbons for the children in Iberville.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate Chopin
Needless to add that this is ambitious confectioner's verse, intentionally nonsensical.
Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond RostandAll over London there are coffee-houses, tobacco-shops, and confectioner-looking shops, whose real use is to be haunts of vice.
The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant | Alexander Johnstone WilsonAdd nuts and cherries cut in small pieces and spread half an inch thick on a pan or slab sprinkled with confectioner's sugar.
A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl | Amy L. WatermanUpon removing from the oven, brush with confectioner's sugar moistened with enough water to allow it to spread.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
British Dictionary definitions for confectioner
/ (kənˈfɛkʃənə) /
a person who makes or sells sweets or confections
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