confection
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confection
- /kənˈfɛkʃən/
Where it comes from
From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem, from cōnfectus, past participle of cōnficiō (“prepare”), from con- (“with”) + faciō (“to make, do”). By surface analysis, confect + -ion. Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500s.
noun confections
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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 table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.
Similar: confect
- 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. The defense attorney maintained that the charges were a confection of the local police.
- 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, that is very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also impractical or non-utilitarian. Her gown was a marvelous confection of lace and tulle.
- A medicinal preparation of any kind, a compound of drugs.
- A deadly poison. Was it not a goodly poison that he gave! Why, he's as well now as he was before. It shuld have been some fine confection That might have given the broth some dainty taste
verb confections · confectioning · confectioned
- To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
Translations
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noun food item
| Español | golosina, dulce, confite |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 과자 gwaja |
| 日本語 | お菓子 okashi, コンフェクション konfekushon |
| 中文 | 糖果 tángguǒ, 蜜餞 /蜜饯 mìjiàn, 糖食 tángshí |
| Português | confeito |
| Français | sucrerie, confiserie, friandise, pâtisserie, bonbon |
| Deutsch | Konfekt, Bonbon |
| Italiano | dolce, pasticcino |
| Ελληνικά | γλύκισμα glýkisma |
| Русский | сла́дости sládosti, конфе́ты konféty, конди́терские изде́лия kondíterskije izdélija, сла́сти slásti |
| العربية | حَلْوَى ḥalwā |
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title = {confection},
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