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English
Etymology
From confectioner + -ess.
Noun
confectioneress (plural confectioneresses)
- (dated, rare) A female confectioner.
1857, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch:...who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners...
1877, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Christabel Rose Coleridge, Arthur Innes, Monthly Packet:The cook smiled and remarked to the confectioneress who was sifting flour in the kitchen, that that was a smart baba.