confectioner
confectioner — noun
- confectionersingular
- confectionersplural
1. someone whose job is preparing chocolates, cakes, or candy, or a shop that produ
someone whose job is preparing chocolates, cakes, or candy, or a shop that produces and sells those products.
Yumi trained for six years as a confectioner before opening a chocolate shop in Kyoto.
trained as a confectioner — describes the profession
The village confectioner had supplied wedding cakes to four generations of one family.
the [village] confectioner — refers to a local shop
Tariq apprenticed under a French confectioner who specialised in caramel and pralines.
Every Sunday, Adina visited the confectioner on Market Street to buy marzipan for her grandmother.
The hotel ordered its truffles from an Italian confectioner based in Turin.
- chocolatier
narrower — only someone who makes chocolate, not cakes or sweets
- pastry chef
overlaps for cakes and desserts; not used for someone who makes hard candy
- candy maker
American English equivalent; informal and product-specific
用法筆記
Refers either to the trained craftsperson or to the small shop they run; the shop reading is more common in British English.