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US
/kənˈfɛkt/
]
NOUN
- a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
VERB
-
make into a confection
This medicine is home-confected - make or construct
How To Use confect In A Sentence
- Take the white of one egg, and measure just as much cold water; mix the two well, and stir stiff with confectioners 'sugar; add a little flavoring, vanilla, or almond, or pistache, and, for some candies, color with a tiny speck of fruit paste. A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl
- Efforts by tobacco companies to stop confectioners selling candy cigarettes in packs resembling cigarette brands seem to have been minimal.
- Casey James Confectionery Store has sold sweets and candies on St Mary's Street, off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, since 1954.
- Secondly, I would like to point out that we are not talking about sweeties, confectionery, or cakes, but about medicines and pharmaceuticals.
- He travelled each morning with bread supplies for Port-laoise but in the afternoons he travelled on the country byroads bringing Brad-bury's breads and confectioneries to rural shops.
- The idea to start manufacturing their own confectionery formed when they started giving their own handmade chocolates to friends as Christmas presents.
- Most customers at the shop, which resembles a modern art gallery more than a confectioner's, defended the brothers. Times, Sunday Times
- To serve the dessert, whip the cream with the confectioners' sugar.
- Never mind that this was originally a pagan festival; the taint of necromancy (communing with the dead) has been overpowered by a commercialised confectionery fest.
- First the candy: Known as Mozart Kugeln, packed in a delightful red tin with tiny portraitures of the composer, these are deluxe confections exquisitely filled with marzipan, made from "fresh green pistachios, almonds and rich hazelnut-nougat, enrobed with delicious milk and bitter chocolates. Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week