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confectioneresses

confectioneresses is the plural of confectioneress.

Meaning of confectioneress

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

Questions about confectioneresses

What is confectioneresses the plural of?
Confectioneresses is the plural of confectioneress.

Words near confectioneresses in the dictionary

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

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