confection

plural confections

1. 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.

   Synonyms: confect

2. The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
3. 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.

4. datedAn artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
5. datedSomething, 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.

   1 more example

   She found a sexy, lacy confection in a lingerie drawer and quickly slipped into it.

   2007, Susan Sizemore, Primal Desires

6. A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
   1. obsoletemedicineA medicinal preparation of any kind, a compound of drugs.
   2. obsoletemedicineA 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

      2007, Unknown, edited by White, Martin and Lockwood, Tom, Arden of Faversham, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20, Scene 1, ll. 421–425

present singular third person confections · participle present confectioning · participle past confectioned · past confectioned

1. To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.