sugar-bakern.
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pastler?a1439
patisser1538
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patissier1596
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sugar-baker1650
pastry-cook1652
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pastry chef1890
1650 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata §408 The Sugar baker make's readie sweet-meats.
2. A sugar-refiner. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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sugar-refiner1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 281 The coat of Armes of the Sugar bakers or Refiners.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. iv. 45 I have seen a confectioner turn a sugar-baker.
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal ii. ii. 20 Her mother..was a Welch milliner, and her father a sugar baker at Bristol.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 426 Sugar-bakers' scum is the skimmings of the sugar during the operation of refining.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 14 Mr. Gabriel Parsons..was a rich sugar-baker, and mistook rudeness for honesty.
1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products
Derivatives
ˈsugar-ˌbakehouse n. a sugar-refinery.
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sugar-house1600
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sugar-garden1613
sugary1696
sugar-bakery1794
sugar-bakehouse1816
purgery1844
usine1858
1816 Ann. Reg. 1815 Chron. 91/2 A sugar bakehouse belonging to the same firm.
ˈsugar-ˌbakery n. (a) a sugar-refinery; (b) the occupation of a sugar-refiner.
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sugar-baking1714
sugary1747
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > place where
ingenio1600
sugar-house1600
sugar-works1604
sugar-garden1613
sugary1696
sugar-bakery1794
sugar-bakehouse1816
purgery1844
usine1858
1794 Deb. Congr. U.S. 5 May (1849) 635 There were only seventeen sugar-bakeries in the United States.
1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel (1861) i. 43 He had embarked in many businesses besides the paternal sugar-bakery.
ˈsugar-ˌbaking n. the refining of sugar.
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sugar-baking1714
sugary1747
sugar-bakery1794
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 103 The said Manufacture of Sugar-Baking and Refining in France.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. III. 36 There are few manufactures here [i.e. at Greenock] carried on..excepting of cordage,..sugar-baking, and some few others.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 48/1 In former days, when refining sugar or ‘sugar baking’ was supposed to be a mystery.
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