confection

nounsweet food

Synonyms for confection

noun sweet food

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., confescioun, from Old French confeccion (12c., Modern French confection) "drawing up (of a treaty, etc.); article, product," in pharmacology, "mixture, compound," from Late Latin confectionem (nominative confectio) "a confection," in classical Latin, "a making, preparing," noun of action from confect-, past participle stem of conficere "to prepare," from com- "with" (see com-) + facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Originally "the making by means of ingredients," sense of "candy or light pastry" predominated from 16c.

Example Sentences for confection

It is used partly as a confection, but in the main as a sirup.

I then inquired, on a day when I had detected her with a bag of the confection.

There was a black gown and a grey gown and a confection in pale blue.

There are also other ingredients, which are used in this Confection.

Any fruit may be made into a confection which, in India, is called "cheese."

And, as for the Pictures of Claye, their confection is after this maner.

We also made an excursion, going in a boat and there eating a confection.

The quantity of the confection may be advantageously doubled.

This confection was found of great value on the march as a substitute for water.

Both from the sanitary and the mental standpoint this confection was unwholesome.

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Synonyms for confection

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Synonyms for confection

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