Meanings
nounconfectioneress (plural confectioneresses)
plural confectioneresses
- datedrareA female confectioner.
The cook smiled and remarked to the confectioneress who was sifting flour in the kitchen, that that was a smart baba.
1877, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Christabel Rose Coleridge, Arthur Innes, Monthly Packet1 more example
...who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners...
1857, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch
Origin
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