An archaic or rare term for a confectionery or place where sweets and candies are made or sold.
Variant form of confectionery, using the -ory suffix (similar to -ery) which denotes a place. This form is largely obsolete in modern English.
This archaic spelling variant shows how English was still experimenting with word formation in the 16th-17th centuries—different writers chose different suffixes (-ery vs -ory) before standardizing on confectionery as the accepted form.
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