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Definition of Confectionaries
1. confectionary [n] - See also: confectionary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confectionaries
Literary usage of Confectionaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Young Mother: Or, Management of Children in Regard to Health by William Andrus Alcott (1838)
"By confectionary we here mean the substances usually sold at those shops in our
cities distinguished by the general name of confectionaries, and which ..."
2. The Southern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser by John Paul Campbell (1854)
"MYERS, Wholesale and Retail Grocer, And dealer in WINES, TEAS, LIQUORS, SEC/ABB
FRUIT, confectionaries, <fec. Front-street, Wilmington, NC THOMAS SMITH ..."
3. The Philosophical Emperor a Political Experiment; Or, The Progress of a by Alexander Bryan Johnson (1841)
"ed and disbursed by the local confectionaries without loss and inconvenience,"
and sullied his memory with the charge of having removed the government funds ..."
4. Autobiography of Dr. Thomas H. Barton ...: Including a History of the Fourth by Thomas H. Barton (1890)
"He visited Syracuse regularly, and on each occasion, we bought a fair supply,
and besides drugs and medicines, we also purchased tobacco and confectionaries ..."
5. The First Book of Samuel by Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick (1896)
"And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, ... 13.
to be confectionaries] The original form of "confectioner," not however in ..."
6. Quarterly Journal of Dental Science (1858)
"I shall therefore notice only one other, that is, poisonous coloured confectionaries.
This is a subject that I conceive to be of very great importance, ..."
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