The confectioner has been a feature of British life for more than a century. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Royal sugar; that is, a confectioner's term for the hardest and purest variety of sugar. From Wordnik.com. [Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois] Reference
In his eyes a confectioner is a really great man, and he would give the whole academy of sciences for the smallest pastrycook in Lombard Street. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
In uncooked icings, which are easily made, sugar, such as confectioner's, is moistened with a liquid of some kind and then flavored in various ways. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies] Reference
Mrs. Forbes recalled the confectioner's window. From Wordnik.com. [Jewel] Reference
Also called confectioner's sugar or icing sugar. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Granted," or words to that effect, from the confectioner. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
The confectioner doesn't care about the size or color at all. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
The confectioner puffed and blew, with straining, swelling neck. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
But why would a confectioner name a chocolate bar after a Sunday meal?. From Wordnik.com. [The Candy Man Can] Reference
No confectioner in our native latitudes could have shown a finer dough. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim] Reference
She was the wife of a free man, but the slave of L. Stasson, a confectioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
A Japanese confectioner has loaned his chocolate version of a Japanese stone garden. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise Of Chocolate] Reference
MACARIUS the younger, a citizen of Alexandria, followed the business of a confectioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
These can be bought from any confectioner and do very well when a red decoration is desired. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals] Reference
Ernest is not quite old enough yet to decide whether he will make a painter or a confectioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, No. 103, July, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
Piedmont, and who was now a confectioner in the Rue des Lombards, and an active partisan of the Fronde. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Mr. Martin and his record label agreed to license the song to the confectioner, for a small, undisclosed fee. From Wordnik.com. [He May Not Win] Reference
Cuban confectioner purchased the likely girl, and, for many years, employed her in hawking his cakes and pies. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
"Zounds!" or something equally effective (in Czech, please) from the confectioner, "here is the very article!". From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
But the most probable existing conjecture is, that his grandfather was a confectioner in Bury Street, St James's. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
One winter's evening, probably in preparation for Christmas, this confectioner was surveying the day's handiwork. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
The confectioner promised to see to this little matter, the visitors tried to get up a smile of gratitude, and faded away. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
An economical plan is for the householder to make his own hot cross and then get the local confectioner to fit a bun to it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.] Reference
Or by coloring half the white batter pink with vegetable color to be had from any confectioner, you can have rose-marble cake. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
But these are now partaken of abroad, and also purchased from the Halwai or confectioner on the assumption that he is a Brahman. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The sweet almonds are of a soft, grateful taste, and much used by the confectioner in numerous preparations of sweet-meats, cookery, &c. From Wordnik.com. [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference
I have also sent to the confectioner and ordered cakes and ices, for I suppose you have invited many guests to the baptism of our infant. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
When I was young, my father, a confectioner, would take me with him into the Calabrian mountains to buy the ingredients he needed to make torrone. From Wordnik.com. [Where Wine's Old World Meets New Ideas] Reference
Of course they are all teetotallers, and no more touch a drop of champagne than a grocer eats his own currants, or a confectioner his own sweetmeats. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891] Reference
When they ate either parched grain or sweetmeats from a confectioner in public they must purify the place on which they sat down with cowdung and water. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The flour-dust of the miller, the starch-dust of the confectioner, increase in fineness and quantity, and they explode; so does the hop-dust of the brewer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
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