confectionary
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
— After the dishes of meat were removed, a dessert of Arabian fruits, confectionaries and sweetmeats was served: among the latter was the date bread.
- A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
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Dated form of confectionery (“a confectioner's shop”).
— They stopped at a confectionary where Blanche experienced her first ice cream.
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One who makes confections; a confectioner.
— He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. -- 1 Samuel viii. 13.
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Archaic form of confectionery (“candy, sweets, taken collectively”).
— Maigre Dishes, dishes used by Roman Catholics on the days when the Church forbids flesh-meats; comprehending fish and vegetable pies and soups, puddings, fruit-pies, egg-dishes, omelets, fritters, macaroni, all preparations of fish, cheese-dishes, fish-sausages, and all creams, jellies, and confectionary, also dressed vegetables, pickles, and preserves.
形容词 adj.
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Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.
— confectionary wares
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Prepared as a confection.
— Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, / The biscuit, or confectionary plum;
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词源
词源 1
From Late Latin cōnfectiōnārius (“one who prepares things by means of ingredients”), from Latin cōnfectiō (“preparing, producing”). See confection.
词源 2
From Late Latin cōnfectiōnārius (“one who prepares things by means of ingredients”), from Latin cōnfectiō (“preparing, producing”). See confection.
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