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What does confectionery mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
  2. (uncountable) The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
  3. A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.
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Passion-fruit is also used in sherbets and confectionery, ice cream and yoghurt.
The term mithai, meaning sweet, has various applications, including approximations to the English categories of puddings and sugar confectionery.
In the Piazza del Comune, the Irish setter that always lay in front of the confectionery store was gone.
After she trained as a confectioner, widow Mrs Smith worked in a number of shops selling confectionery, pies and sandwiches.
Red 3, which is found in the cherries in fruit cocktail, some types of confectionery and baked produce, is known to cause thyroid cancer in rats.
His grandiloquent claim that there are five branches of the fine arts, and that the greatest of these is confectionery, is famous.

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