n. 1 a dish or delicacy made with sweet ingredients. 2 mixing, compounding. 3 a fashionable or elaborate article of women's dress. confectionary adj. (in sense 1).
[ ME f. OF f. L confectio -onis (as confect) ]
n. 1 a dish or delicacy made with sweet ingredients. 2 mixing, compounding. 3 a fashionable or elaborate article of women's dress. confectionary adj. (in sense 1).
[ ME f. OF f. L confectio -onis (as confect) ]
Concise Oxford English dictionary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2012