CONFECTION


Meaning of CONFECTION in English

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) ]

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