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Confection   /kənfˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Confection

noun
1.
A food rich in sugar.  Synonym: sweet.
2.
The act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components.  Synonym: concoction.



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"Confection" Quotes from Famous Books



... gipsies, And in boiling kettles, fiercely eddying, struggled the caloric, With gases, and the saccharine spirit, until the granulated sugar, Showed a calm, brown face, welcome to the stores of the housewife; Moulded also into small cakes, it formed the favorite confection Of maiden and swain, during ...
— Man of Uz, and Other Poems • Lydia Howard Sigourney

... pony shows remarkably good taste," commented Rev. MacGill, trying to pass the calamity off as a joke. But his hostess wasn't capable of an answering smile; she gazed despairingly, tragically, at the desecrated confection. ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin



Words linked to "Confection" :   chewing gum, hardbake, taffy apple, put together, treat, sweet, candied apple, toffee apple, sweetmeat, nonpareil, goody, set up, dainty, confiture, caramel apple, candy, delicacy, centre, gum, kickshaw, piece, center, maraschino cherry, maraschino, assemble, tack, candy apple, tack together, creating from raw materials



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