"confectioneress" meaning in English

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