confectioner's shop
Example Sentences
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He married a woman called Irene Ferrett and quickly frittered away his inheritance on a failed confectioner's shop in Mumbles – Hayward, in one of his better jokes, calls him a humbug merchant.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2013
Whether Mrs. Clarke was truly in need of a confectioner’s shop was a matter of opinion, but Penelope was too busy timing the children to comment.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
The confectioner’s shop reached, Lola had time for no more advice.
From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Lester, Pauline
The mess-tables were laid out like the counters in a confectioner's shop, with apple and gooseberry tarts, plum and sponge-cakes in pyramids, besides various other unknown puffs, cakes, and loaves of all sizes and shapes.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold
She would not relinquish this task, though there was a confectioner's shop at the very next corner.
From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul
