sweetery

plural sweeteries

1. countableA place in which sweets are made and/or sold.

   There’s also a Mouse Mine ride, panning for gold, and a petting farm, along with various rides, snackeries, and sweeteries to please children of all ages.

   1983, Robert W. Tolf, Country Inns of the Old South, San Francisco, Calif.: 101 Productions, →ISBN, page 82

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   Sicilians are not peculiar in their love of sweets, but I have never tasted elsewhere confections so delicious, and confectioneries bear the suggestive name of dolcerie, or sweeteries.

   1898, George B[oardman] Taylor, “A Run Through Italy—Continued”, in Italy and the Italians, Philadelphia, Pa.: American Baptist Publication Society, page 181

   In the Machinery Hall everything is motor-driven—Linotype machines, die presses, printing and lithographing machines of all kinds, sweeteries, bakeries, and conveyors, looms and soap making machines.

   1907 June 14, “The Irish International Exhibition”, in The Electrical Review, volume LX, number 1,542, London, page 971, column 1

   Things get pretty rough in the sweeteries sometimes, especially with crowds milling about. On one such occasion up at Bloor street somebody pushed a waitress, who, by the law of gravitation, was compelled to splash chocolate sodas over a couple nearby.

   1943 January 27, rex wilson, “hither and yon”, in Varsity: The Undergraduate Newspaper, volume LXII, number 70, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto, page 3, column 2

   She and her friend Mary Halloren (who was also the daughter of a baker and lived at number 27) would spend their pennies, when they had them, on cream sweets, stealing as many more from the old women who owned the sweeteries, such as old Mrs Francis on Prospect Hill.

   1992, Peter Costello, “‘Nora’”, in James Joyce: The Years of Growth, 1882-1915, Schull, County Cork: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, →ISBN, page 243

   THREE CHURCH STREET EATERIES, one specializing in sweeteries (Rami’s Caffe, Chloe’s, and What’s for Dessert), will get together to hold a benefit Oct. 23 in memory of Rami Sternfeld, the well-loved Church Street restaurateur who died last May of an AIDS-related illness.

   1994 September, Mazook, “Rumors”, in The Noe Valley Voice, volume XVIII, number 7, San Francisco, Calif., page 37, column 4

2. in pluralrareuncountableSweets collectively.

   Dessert featured all sorts of yummy sweetery and colorful marzipan mushrooms.

   2008 May 19, the Bede, “[insomnia / celebwatch] inside Talentless Ashlee's classless wedding”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 Nov 2023

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   Miss Ruby Geer and Miss Winnie Law looked after the fancy goods stall, while another fancy goods stall was under the charge of Miss Mabel White and Miss Violet Browning. The sweeteries stall was superintended by Miss Kathleen Blow. A large number of ladies officiated at the refreshment stall.

   1905 December 8, “Young Leaguer’s Sale of Work. Bright Scenes at the Club Hall.”, in The Sevenoaks Chronicle, and Kentish Advertiser, number 1378, Sevenoaks, Kent, page 5, column 5

   This is the Café-Konditorei which has been synonymous with the Viennese tradition of sweetery since its founding in 1776, the year when the United States achieved independence.

   1992, Sevan Nisanyan, Vienna & Budapest (American Express Travel Guide), New York, N.Y.: Prentice Hall Travel, →ISBN, page 166

   In the months leading up to his murderous assault upon the vendor of iced sweeteries, the Daddy had, as they say, lived on his nerves.

   2001, Robert Rankin, The Fandom of the Operator, London: Corgi Books, Transworld Publishers, published 2002, →ISBN, page 103

   Delicious sweetery / Vast variety of cheesecake slices. Everything imaginable.

   2019 April 18, Samwill89, “The Cheesecake Factory”, in Tripadvisor, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023

   […] this batch of sweetery hopefully will tailor richly to your palates。[…] [image of chocolate sweets]

   2020 October 23, @tenderlyteal, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2020