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   Con·fec·tion

   /kənˈfekSH(ə)n/

   

   noun

   • 1. a dish or delicacy made with sweet ingredients: "a whipped chocolate and cream confection"
   • ▪ an elaborately constructed thing, especially a frivolous one: "the city is a classical confection of shimmering gold"
   • ▪ a fashionable or elaborate article of women's dress: "she was wearing some white confection with an enormous satin bow"
   • 2. the action of mixing or compounding something.

   Word Origin Middle English (in the general sense ‘something made by mixing’, especially a medicinal preparation): via Old French from Latin confectio(n-), from conficere ‘put together’ (see confect).

   Derivatives

   • 1. confectionary adjective

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