Confectioneress

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female confectioner. dated, rare

    "...who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners..."

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"...who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners..."

Etymology

From confectioner + -ess.

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