confectioner

• Hugh could see the old confectioner, a shadow beyond the tinted glass, something made of smoke. —  FSF,June2005
• [3] In contrast to the elegant restaurant and confectioner, the coffee house had simple, uncovered wooden tables. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• The nightmare of nightmares for a confectioner is to mix up candies for a customer.
• The confectioner was amazed. —  The Pacha of Many Tales
• There was no doubt about drapers and grocers, when they came of good old Grimworth families, like Mr. Luff and Mr. Prettyman: they visited with the Palfreys, who farmed their own land, played many a game at whist with the doctor, and condescended a little towards the timber-merchant, who had lately taken to the coal-trade also, and had got new furniture; but whether a confectioner should be admitted to this higher level of respectability, or should be understood to find his associates among butchers and bakers, was a new question on which tradition threw no light. —  Brother Jacob

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