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What is the noun for confections?

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confection

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 act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
(dated) An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
(dated) Something, such as a garment or a decoration, seen as very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also seen as impractical or non-utilitarian.
(pharmacology) A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
Synonyms:

sweetmeat, candy, sweet, cake, dainty, jam, pastry, bonbon, confectionery, chew, sweetie, mint, caramel, sugar-plum, treat, boiled sweet, lolly, toffee, sweet treat, fondant, chocolate, jawbreaker, comfit, sugarplum, piece of confectionery, bonbons, sweets, sugar candy, lozenge, pastille, snack, jelly bean, goody, drop, sweetmeats, sucker … more

Examples:

“She had multiple servings of each sweet pie, cake, confection, tort, ice cream, bun, and pastry they had.”

confectionary

A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
(obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
(dated) A confectioner's shop; a confectionery.
(obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.
(uncountable, rare) Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.

confectionery

(uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
(uncountable) The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.
Synonyms:

Examples:

“After she trained as a confectioner, widow Mrs Smith worked in a number of shops selling confectionery, pies and sandwiches.”

“Flowers and leaves may be bought at any confectionery and pasted on with a little icing.”

“For a city built on chocolate, York seems to produce some dire confectionery.”

confect

(obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.

confectioner

A manufacturer of or dealer in confections.
Synonyms:

baker, patissier, breadmaker, dougher, piemaker, boulanger, chef, confiseur, glacier, pastry chef, dough puncher, pastry cook, pastry maker … more

Examples:

“After she trained as a confectioner, widow Mrs Smith worked in a number of shops selling confectionery, pies and sandwiches.”

“The monks met a confectioner who started to produce the Pontefract cakes as sweets, which are still sold today.”

“The chocolatier and confectioner spent long hours creating an enormous Easter egg, weighing in at 25 kgs of plain chocolate.”

confectioneress

(dated, rare) A female confectioner.

confectioneresses

plural of confectioneress

confectionaries

plural of confectionary
Examples:

“And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.”

“Isolated by concentration and crystallization from whey or ultrafiltration permeate, lactose is used in confectionaries and as a filling agent.”

“Regarding food, delicatessen shops and butcher's with their own production as well as artisan confectionaries stand out.”

confectioneries

plural of confectionery
Synonyms:

Examples:

“Take a trip to the western edge of the city, to Fordsburg, and try the eastern delights offered by several confectioneries.”

“These comforts are defined as confectioneries, reading material, flowers, personal toiletry articles, and other items of a similar nature.”

“His firm purchases an estimated 25 percent of all the shea nuts picked by women in West Africa for use in confectioneries.”

confectioners

plural of confectioner
Synonyms:

bakers, patissiers, doughers, piemakers, chefs, confiseurs, glaciers, pastry chefs, pastry cooks

Examples:

“Among the attractions will be produce from farmers, bakers, jam makers, cheese makers, confectioners and brewers.”

“Dust the honey crisps with confectioners ' sugar and insert several into the panna cotta.”

“Others were seamstresses, barkeeps, gardeners, washerwomen, and confectioners.”

confections

plural of confection
Synonyms:

sweetmeats, candy, sweet, cake, dainties, jam, pastry, bonbons, mints, confectionery, sweeties, chews, caramel, sugar-plums, treats, boiled sweets, comfits, toffee, fondant, jawbreakers, sugarplums, lollies, chocolate, titbits, delicacies, tidbits, goodies, luxury, fancies, savouries, savories, morsels, appetisers, appetizers, nibbles, snacks, bites, bonnes bouches, cates, bits, delectables, kickshaws, viands, extravagance, indulgence … more

Examples:

“Bakery windows were crammed with marzipan pumpkins and spidery confections.”

“But then again, such creations as eel ice cream are a revelation to the world of seafood and confections.”

“I was a gummy adherent, gobbling gelatinous animal shaped confections like they were going out of style.”

confects

plural of confect

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