confectioneress

English edit

confectioneress (plural confectioneresses)

(dated, rare) A female confectioner.
- 1857, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch:
  ...who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners...
- 1877, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Christabel Rose Coleridge, Arthur Innes, Monthly Packet:
  The cook smiled and remarked to the confectioneress who was sifting flour in the kitchen, that that was a smart baba.