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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
confection .
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Examples
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Roucoule; placing in the midst of them two of those tender volatiles, billing each other, and confectioned with butter; a basket containing little gateaux of apricots, which, I know, all young ladies adore; and a jelly of marasquin, bland insinuating, intoxicating as the glance of beauty.
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Reine — a la Reine Blanche I called it, — as white as her own tint — and confectioned with the most fragrant cream and almonds.
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World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines in the clinical trials of three traditional drugs confectioned by traditional medical practitioners.
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Ame is confectioned from malted millet and is virtually the same as the malt extract of the Occident.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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The ladies of the Pension Magnotte were for the most part of mature age and unattractive appearance -- two or three lonely spinsters, eking out their pitiful little incomes as best they might, by the surreptitious sale of delicate embroideries, confectioned in their dismal leisure; and
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Hot wines & sweet or confectioned with spices, or very strong
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Aneys in confit rede other whyt, 36. 38. i.e. Anis or Aniseed confectioned red, or white, used for garnish, 58.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Reproof is by nature harsh and biting, but confectioned in sweetness and warmed through and through in the fire of charity, it becomes salutary, pleasant, and even delightful.
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales Jean Pierre Camus 1618
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After this came my second service: a pudding a la Reine Elizabeth (who, Madame Fribsbi knows, was a maiden princess); a dish of opal-coloured plover's eggs which I called Nid de tourtereaux a la Roucoule; placing in the midst of them two of those tender volatiles, billing each other, and confectioned with butter; a basket containing little gateaux of apricots, which, I know, all young ladies adore; and a jelly of marasquin, bland insinuating, intoxicating as the glance of beauty.
The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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“A surprise for the coming Session is being confectioned at the Wednesday gatherings of a young hostess not a hundred miles from Westminster.
The Silver Spoon 2004
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