A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
The quality of being delicate.
Refinement in taste or discrimination.
Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.
Frailty of health or fitness.