Confections

Word CONFECTIONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Confections"

What do we mean by confections?

A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.

The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.

The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.

An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.

Something, such as a garment or a decoration, seen as very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also seen as impractical or non-utilitarian.

A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.

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The word "confections" in example sentences

As is well known, the most important variety of confection is candy, and this is the one that is usually meant when the term confections is mentioned. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

To assist in the making of confections in the home, the principles of candy making, as well as those which must be understood for the making of such other foods as are commonly called confections, are given in this Section. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

-- Glorias: The main city for these praline-like confections is Linares, N.L. Wonderful fresh ones are sold by guys along the highway. ❋ Unknown (1919)

There were about three complete ones amongst them, and the remainder adorned themselves in confections of their own. ❋ Unknown (1891)

Inspired by Latin American confections, these cookies are rich with milk caramel chips and stripes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But that Walt Disney — a man who never learned to catch a ball because as a boy he never had time to play, and a man who adored the soda-fountain confections he hadn’t been able to afford as a child — beat such a retreat wasn’t really surprising, and was far more sad than contemptible. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Apart from these, cakes, biscuits, and tarts, &c., the class of sweetmeats called confections may be thus classified: — 1. ❋ Isabella Mary (1861)

The house of "confections" yielded me no broadcloth of a cut or dimension suitable to my figure. ❋ Various (N/A)

And Desnoyers was henceforth consulted in all matters of style every time they ordered any "confections" from the shops of Buenos Aires. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Most of the best "confections" in the hollow square were sold, and ❋ Unknown (1901)

Various elegant "confections" in the shape of tea-gowns and dressing-gowns littered the bed and the chairs. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Here, however, the term may be used in the sense of "confections" generally, the sweetmeats eaten by way of restoratives in the Bath. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Although a impression of Furness confections seemed as good as seems a tiny bizarre to everyone solely Victorian Philadelphians, he did leave a major stamp upon American architecture. ❋ Admin (2009)

A longtime baking enthusiast, she took to the streets of Manhattan in a festively painted van she called the Treats Truck, selling cookies, brownies and other baked confections to sugar-crazed New Yorkers. ❋ Paul Lukas (2011)

We chose not to leave the table for the Patisserie dessert area outside, where you have your choice of cakes, French delicacies, chocolates and fruit confections . ❋ Jay Weston (2011)

Audiences in San Francisco waited in long lines in the lobby of the Balboa Theater to sample goodies from Bakers Dozen, a collective of pastry enthusiasts, while in Greenwich, Connecticut, French Chef Jean Pierre Bagnato, of the celebrated Versailles restaurant and patisserie, served moviegoers his own exquisite confections. ❋ Chris Hegedus (2011)

As Kings of Pastry opened in cities around the country, we were touched by the generosity of chefs we had never met who donated confections for the screenings. ❋ Chris Hegedus (2011)

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