Confectionaryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

confectionary (not comparable)

1. Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.

   confectionary wares

2. Prepared as a confection.
   • 1798, William Cowper, On Receipt of My Mother's Picture‎, line 60:

     Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, / The biscuit, or confectionary plum;

名詞

confectionary (countable and uncountable, plural confectionaries)

1. A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
   • 1787, Miss Tully, “February 10, 1787”, in Letters Written During a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli‎, published 1819, page 285:

     After the dishes of meat were removed, a dessert of Arabian fruits, confectionaries and sweetmeats was served: among the latter was the date bread.

2. (obsolete) A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
3. Dated form of confectionery (“a confectioner's shop”).
   • 1986, Penny Hayes, The Long Trail‎, →ISBN, page 184:

     They stopped at a confectionary where Blanche experienced her first ice cream.

4. (obsolete) One who makes confections; a confectioner.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 8:13:

     And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cookes, and to be bakers.

5. (uncountable) Archaic form of confectionery (“candy, sweets, taken collectively”).
   • 1827, Margaret Dods [pseudonym; Christian Isobel Johnstone], The Cook and Housewife’s Manual; Containing the Most Approved Modern Receipts for Making Soups, Gravies, Sauces, Ragouts, and All Made-Dishes; […]. The Second Edition; […], Edinburgh: […] Oliver and Boyd, and Bell and Bradfute; Geo. B. Whittaker, London; and Robertson and Atkinson, Glasgow, page 11:

     Maigre Dishes, dishes used by Roman Catholics on the days when the Church forbids flesh-meats; comprehending fish and vegetable pies and soups, puddings, fruit-pies, egg-dishes, omelets, fritters, macaroni, all preparations of fish, cheese-dishes, fish-sausages, and all creams, jellies, and confectionary, also dressed vegetables, pickles, and preserves.

関連する語

• confect
• confection
• confectionery
• confectioner

参照

• “confectionary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.