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confectioneress

confectioneress noun: a female confectioner.

Noun

confectioneress (plural confectioneresses)

  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

Forms of confectioneress

pluralconfectioneresses

Origin of confectioneress

From confectioner + -ess.

Questions about confectioneress

What does confectioneress mean?
Confectioneress means a female confectioner.
What part of speech is confectioneress?
Confectioneress is a noun.
What is the plural of confectioneress?
The plural of confectioneress is confectioneresses.

Words near confectioneress in the dictionary

  1. confectioner's creams
  2. confectioner's glaze
  3. confectioner's glucose
  4. confectioner's sugar
  5. confectioner's sugars
  6. confectioneress
  7. confectioneresses
  8. confectioneries
  9. confectioners
  10. confectioners sugar
  11. confectioners sugars

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