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[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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