Meaning of Confection | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
2. The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
3. The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
4. An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
   dated
5. Something, such as a garment or a decoration, that is very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also impractical or non-utilitarian.
   dated
6. A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
   obsolete
7. A medicinal preparation of any kind, a compound of drugs.
   obsolete
8. A deadly poison.
   obsolete

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Examples

“The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.”

“The defense attorney maintained that the charges were a confection of the local police.”

“She found a sexy, lacy confection in a lingerie drawer and quickly slipped into it.”

“Was it not a goodly poison that he gave! Why, he's as well now as he was before. It shuld have been some fine confection That might have given the broth some dainty taste”

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