confectioneress

English

Etymology

From confectioner +‎ -ess.

Noun

confectioneress (plural confectioneresses)

1. (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.